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moles have young in- March, in mild weather, four, five, and six, at 
a time, and he has found seven young at once in a nest. Mr. 
F. Kitton and I have both tested the rusty-coloured fur from the 
throat of the yellow moles for traces of iron, hut without detecting 
any. Wo tested it with ferrocyanide of potassium and sulphuric 
acid. I am told that a mole-catcher at Loddon or Chedgrave, 
catches white moles there. 
May 25th, 1877. At Hockcring wood, a woodman told me ho 
found a nest of four young moles, a week or two ago. 
October 31st, 1877. On my way from Norwich to Dilham, a 
fellow-traveller told mo there were hundreds of cream-coloured 
moles at Foulden, near Swaflham. 
I spent the 14tli of November, 1877, in Foxley wood, where an 
old friend of the name of Clarke (the head feller of brushwood) 
told me that in the middle of May, 1875, he found in Foxley 
wood a nest of six young naked moles, the largest number be ever 
found in a nest. 
March 7th, 1870. Mr. ,T. E. Cremer brought me a live mole 
which he caught in the act of burrowing near the surface of the 
ground ; he saw several worms escaping to the surface in front of 
the mole before he caught it. I put it into a large box with some 
earthworms and a good large quantity of earth. This mole ate a 
worm very quickly, holding it with its fore feet. It was very active, 
hardly ever resting for a minute during the four-and-a-half hours 
whilst I was present. It made a very small shrill squeak like that 
of a bat but not so loud. The noise is scarcely audible at the distance 
of two feet, and is made when the mole is under the surface of the 
ground, but not when the mole is touched. In burrowing, this 
mole generally carried its tail erect or turned slightly over its back. 
In running it made more use of the muscles of its body and hind 
limbs than of its fore legs, and frequently raised the fore part of 
the body from the ground by bending its neck and back upwards 
till the hands were raised off the ground. In burrowing it bores 
with its snout, shovels away the earth with its hands, and propels 
itself with its hind legs and the muscles of its body at the same 
time. It also had the power of scratching its back, or cleaning its 
fur with one hind foot. It did this very rapidly and without 
stopping in its work, either running or excavating at the same time. 
It has been said that the scent of green elder is so disagreeable to 
