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of the birds and insects. The prevailing colour of 
the fur is green ; but it exhibits, in certain reflections 
of the light, tints of a bronze or brighter copper 
colour, which are particularly vivid when the fur is 
wet, or the animal immersed in clear water. It has 
very generally, though erroneously, been said to be 
indigenous in Siberia ; but it is now understood to 
be an inhabitant of Southern Africa. 
THE RED CHRYSOCHLORE, OR RED MOLE OF PENNANT. 
Talpa Rubra, L. 
This is something larger than the last mentioned, 
and is distinguished by those peculiarities, which 
separate that animal from those to which it is in 
part assimilated, except that the hind feet have four 
toes instead of five. The fur is reddish, inclining 
to a clear ash colour. This is said by Seba, whose 
authority is doubted, to be an American animal. 
THE CONDYLURE. (Illiger.) 
This genus of professor Illiger deserves, certainly, 
to be separated from that of the sorex or shrew, in 
which Linnaeus arranged its principal species, if not 
