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Wo believed them to be two litters and two mothers, though all 
were taken from the same hole. I cannot now find the note 
concerning these, as my diary in those days had no index. I have 
several times taken young hedgehogs, sometimes only three in 
number, sometimes as many as live from one nest, always, I think, 
accompanied with the mother. The above case of small young in 
November, is the only instance 1 can remember of very young 
hedgehogs in winter. These small white-spinod young, appear to 
be unable to roll up as the older ones do. Mr. Bayfield the game- 
keeper at ITockering Wood told me he once saw a litter of six 
yOung in one nest. 
Mole (Talpa europau ). October 20th, 1871. I examined a 
large mole-heap in a field of carrots at Becston Regis. It was 
about thirty inches in diameter at the surface of the ground, and 
about twelve inches high in the centre. Just below the surface of 
the ground in the middle of the heap was a cavity about six inches 
in diameter ; this cavity appeared to be spherical ; it was nearly 
filled with green and withering carrot leaves. I noticed seven runs 
or tunnels communicating with this nest and radiating from it ; one 
running over it, and one running partly round it and connecting 
the radiating runs. 
March 5th, 1857. I opened two old nests of mole at Oulton. 
They were in a plantation of mixed trees, were very much alike, 
and much the same as the Beeston nest in pattern, but I could 
only find four runs communicating with one, and five with the 
other. There was part of a circular run round one nest, and a 
great complication of runs above it ; but they were so stopped and 
compressed in many parts that I could not sketch the exact pattern 
of every part. Both nests contained dead leaves. 
On the 3rd of February, 1876, at Swannington, Old John Keeler 
(a celebrated mole-catcher) told me that moles usually bring forth 
four or five young at a birth, but that he had more than once found 
eight young moles in the body of the mother ; that moles generally 
bring forth young in the end of May, but at Bylaugh they arc a 
month earlier ; that their nest is usually placed under a fence or in 
a plantation, and that it is composed of dead or of green leaves 
under a large mole-heap and entered by several runs in all directions, 
and these runs are connected by circular runs ; but he seemed to 
