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MOLE. 
M. with the fore feet pretty broad, hind feet very 
fcaly, with a few fhort hairs on them : the claws oil 
the fore feet like thofe of the common mole ; on the 
hind very long and (lender: hair on the nofe and 
and body foft, long, and of a rufty brown color : 
tail covered with fhort hair; the length two inches; 
that of nofe and body four inches fix-tenths. 
Inhabits iV. America . 
Brown. Sorex aquatlcus. S. plantis palmatis, palmis eaudaque breviore al- 
bis. Lin.fyjl. 74. 
M. with a (lender nofe : upper jaw much longer than 
the lower j two cutting teeth in the upper, four, in 
the lower, the two middle of which are very fmall: 
no canine teeth : fore feet very broad : nails long : 
hind feet fmall; five claws on each : hair very foft 
and gloffy, brown at the ends, deep grey at the bot¬ 
tom : tail and feet white : length, from nofe to tail, 
five inches and a half: tail very (lender, not an inch 
Jong. 
Inhabits N. America : called there the Brown 
Mole : fent from New Tork by Mr. A. Blackburne , 
with p. Yellow Mole and No. 243 and 244. The 
black and fhining purple Virginian mole, defcribed 
by Seba as the fame with the common kind, was 
not among thofe that gentleman favored us with. 
hinn&us places this and cur radiated mole in his 
* P. 51. tab. xxxii. 
clafs 
Z144 . Long. 
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