CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 4. INSEOTIVORA. 
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Virginia. In the United States It is sometimes called Button-nosed Mole. Its length is five 
inches; its color nearly black ; the nose and feet, flesh-color. It burrows iu moist places like 
the shrew-mole, though rather deeper, and has, like that 
animal, chambers for rearing its young. It is most numer- 
ous near the borders of streams, its food, like that of the 
mole, consisting of worms and insects. When observed in 
confinement, it continually attempts to hide itself by dig- 
ging, and the cartilaginous tendrils ai'ound the nose are 
in perpetual motion. In that state it eats all kinds of flesh 
readily, and shows no disposition to feed on vegetables. 
The C. macroura, described by Richardson and others 
as a distinct species, is thought by Dr. DeKay to be the same as the one above described. 
SNOUT OF THE C. CRISTATA, ENLARGED. 
