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AMERICAN MARSH SHREW. 
birds or other animals it finds dead in the fields, that in winter it has a 
store of provision laid by, only coming to the snow-covered surface on 
fine days for the purpose of getting a little fresh air, and that from the 
number of tracks sometimes seen at one place we consider it partly grega- 
rious in its habits. 
Our drawing was made from a specimen in the British Museum at London. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
The American Marsh Shrew, according to the writers who have seen it, 
exists in the northern parts of our continent from Hudson’s Bay to the 
Coppermine river. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
We are not aware that any author has referred to this animal, except 
Dr. Richardson ; the specimen from which our drawing was made was 
the original one from which Dr. Richardson described, and we believe 
this species has never been hitherto figured. 
