SERE W; 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw pointing forward. 
Long (lender nofe : fmall ears. 
Five toes on each foot. 
MvyccX'iu JElian hip, An. lib. vi. 
c. 22. Mvoy&Xvi. Diofcorid. lib. 
ii. c. 42. 
Mus Araneus Agricola An. Subter. 
485. Gefner quad, q 47. 
Mus araneus, mus caecus. Gefner 
econ. 116. 
Mus araneus, Shrew, Shrew- 
moufe, cr hardy Shrew. Raiijyn. 
quad. 233. 
Mus araneus roftro produ£liofb 
Spitfmaus Klein quad. 57. Kramer 
Aujlr. 317. 
Sorex araneps. S. cauda medio- 
cri,'corpora fubtus albido. Lin. 
fyjl. 74. Nabbmus Faun. fuse. 
No. 24. 
Mils araneus fupra ex fufeo rufus 
infra albicans. Brijfon quad. 126. 
La Mufaraigne. de Bujjcn x viii. 
57. tab , x. 
Shrew moufe Br. ZgqI. I. 112 
Shr. with fhort rounded ears: eyes fmall, and almoft 
hid in the fur: nofe long and (lender, upper part 
the longed:: head and upper part of the body of a 
brownifh red : belly of a dirty white : length, front 
nofe to tail, two inches and a half j tail one and a 
half. 
Inhabits Europe : lives in old walls, heaps of 
ftones, or holes in the earth : is frequently near 
hay-ricks, dunghills, and neceiTary-houfes : live* on 
corn, infedts, and any filth: is often obferved root¬ 
ing in ordure, like a hog : from its food, or die 
places it frequents, has a difagreeable fmell : cats 
will kill, but not eat it: brings four or five young 
at a time. The antients believed it was injurious to 
cattle, an error now detected. There feer^s to be 
an annual mortality of thefe animals in iAugujE 
numbers being then found dead in the paths. 
X 2 Mus 
3 G 7 
xxxm. 
HRE W. 
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