BLARINA BREVICAUDA. 
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ter indicated a temperature of -20 Fahr. (-29 C.). It makes long 
journeys over the snow, burrowing down whenever it comes to an 
elevation that denotes the presence of a log or stump, and I am 
inclined to believe that at this season it must feed largely upon 
the chrysalides and larvae of insects, that are always to be found in 
such places. 
The eyes of the Shrew are distinctly visible in the living animal, 
not being covered by the integument, as is the case with some of the 
moles. Still, the sight is very much restricted, and is, I think, limit- 
ed almost to the power ot discriminating light from darkness. On 
the other hand, the hearing is exceedingly acute, and tactile sensi- 
bility is highly developed 
Mr. John Morden, of Hyde Park, Ontario, has recently published, 
in the Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist, an article “ On the 
Mole.” He states that in a trap set for mice he found, at one time, 
a Shrew and two white-footed mice [Hesperomys leucopus), one of the 
latter being dead and about half eaten. He goes on to say : “ The 
evening of that same day, the mole was placed in an old laundry 
boiler and the entire dead mouse given to it, which by morning was 
entirely eaten, bones and all, except the hair. We then gave the 
mole a large rat just killed, when it at once proceeded to eat out its 
eyes, and by 4 o’clock next afternoon one side of the rat’s head, bone, 
together with the brains, were eaten, and strange to say, the mole 
looked no larger .... Our curiosity was aroused to know by 
what means a mole or shrew could kill mice which were larger than 
itself ; so four large meadow mice being procured, they were placed 
in the boiler with the mole, which as soon as it met a mouse, showed 
fight, but the mouse knocked it away with its front feet and leaped 
as far away as it could. The mole from the first seemed not to see 
very plainly and started around the boiler at a lively rate, reaching 
and scenting in all directions with its long nose, like a pig that has 
broken into a back yard and smells the swill barrel. The mice seem- 
ed terror-stricken, momentarily rising on their hind legs, looking for 
