3 *$ 
MOLE. 
and roots: does vail damage in gardens, by fling¬ 
ing up the foil and loofening the roots of plants : 
is moll a&ive before rain, and in winter before a 
thaw, worms being then in motion: breeds in the 
fpring: brings four or five young at a time: makes 
its <ieft of mofs, a little beneath the furface of the 
ground, under the greateit hillock : raifes no hil¬ 
locks in dry weather, being then obliged to pene¬ 
trate deep after its prey: makes a great fcream 
when taken. Talma chrifti and white hellebore , 
made into a pafte, and laid in their holes, deftroys 
them. None in Ireland\ 
jS. Yellow. M. in form refembling the European ; 
but larger, being fix inches two-tenths long •, the 
tail one inch: hair foft, filky and gloffy, of a 
yellowifli brown color at the ends * dark grey at 
the roots : brighteft about the head, darkeft 
about the rump: belly of a deep cinereous 
brown : feet and tail white. 
Inhabits N. America . Defcribed from a Ikin in 
which the jaws were taken out. 
TaJpa 
