STAR-NOSED MOLE. 
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Mole for those made by the Star-Nose, as to us it has always appeared 
a rare species in every part of our Union. 
In a few localities where we were in the habit, many years ago, of ob- 
taining the Star-nosed Mole, it was always found on the banks of rich 
meadows near running streams. The galleries did not run so near the 
surface as those of the Common Shrew Mole. We caused one of the gal- 
leries to be dug out, and obtained a nest containing three young, appa- 
rently a week old. The radiations on the nose were so slightly developed 
that until we carefully examined them we supposed they were the young 
of the Common Shrew Mole. The nest was spacious, composed of withered 
grasses, and situated in a large excavation under a stump. The old ones 
had made their escape, and we endeavoured to preserve the young ; but 
the want of proper nourishment caused their death in a couple of days. 
The specimen of the Star-nosed Mole, from which our plate was drawn, 
was sent to us by our highly esteemed friend James G. King, Esq., having 
been captured on a moist piece of ground at his country seat in New Jersey, 
opposite the city of New-York. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIB0TION. 
This species is found sparingly in all the northern and eastern 
states. Dr. Richardson supposes it to exist as far north as Lake Su- 
perior. We obtained a specimen five miles from the Falls of Niagara, 
on the Canada side, and have traced it in all the New-England States. 
W^e received specimens from Dr. Brewer, obtained near Boston, and fiom 
W. O. Ayres, Esq., from Long Island. We caught a few of these animals 
near New-York, and obtained others from various parts of the state. We 
saw a specimen at York, Pennsylvania, and found another at Frankfort, 
east of Philadelphia. We captured one in the valleys of the Virginia 
Mountains, near the Red Sulphur Springs, and received another from the 
valleys in the mountains of North Carolina, near the borders of South 
Carolina, and presume it may follow the valleys of the Alleghany ridge as 
far to the south as those latitudes. We have never found it in South Ca- 
rolina or Georgia, but to the west we have traced it in Ohio and the 
northern parts of Tennessee. 
general remarks. 
We have been induced to undertake a careful examination of the teeth 
of this species, which forms the type of the genus, in consequence of the 
wide differences existing among authors in regard to the characters of the 
teeth. Demarbst gave six incisors above and four below in the under jaw. 
