189? 
November 22 
Shrew eats 
butter 
in cabin 
Just as we were sitting down to dinner, Gilbert 
called my attention to what we at first took to be a Mouse 
that had climbed to a shelf about 4 feet above the floor 
and was in the act of helping itself to some butter which 
is kept in an open glass tumbler. To my surprise, it 
proved to be a large^ Shrew, a Blarina, I think. It would 
thrust its nose into the butter and eat qjaickly for a 
minute or two, balancing itself the while on the edge 
of the tumbler. Then it would descend and disappear in 
the wood box, returning again to resume its feast. I 
now suspect that it is the creature that made the holes 
in the path in front of the cabin. We saw it in a good 
light at a distance of less than eight feet and there can 
be no question that it was a Shrew. It had a short tail 
and no external ears. 
