THE LIVING WORLD. 
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The Changeable Mole, Gilded Mole, Shining Mole, or Cape Chryso- 
chlore (Chrysochloris holosericea), is among the notabilities of the Cape of Good 
Hope. Its silken coat is bronze-green or bronze-red, constantly changing in the 
light like a variable silk. Its teeth do not meet, but the ones below fit into 
vacant spaces' beside the ones above. 
The Star-nosed Mole, Long-tailed Mole, Knotty-tailed Mole, or Radiated 
Mole ( Condylura cristata ), has a proboscis like a nose which terminates in what 
looks like a rose-colored sea-anemone, and this singular addition to his olfactory 
organ can be expanded or contracted at pleasure. It has North America for its 
habitat. 
The African Mole, or Golden Mole (Chrysochloris aurea), has a peculiar 
arrangement for securing the leverage that such a constant and deep-digging 
miner requires, while at the same time the length of limb shall not increase 
the resistance with which he is to meet. The limbs then are exteriorly very 
short, but there are deep cavities in the walls of the thorax which admit of the 
presence and use of what may be called leg-pistons. 
The Hairy African Mole (Chrysochloris villosa ), and Trevelyan’s African 
Mole (Chrysochloris trevelyani) , have skull- 
ridges which give the hair of the head the 
appearance of a necklace, or a cap. 
The Rice Mole (Oryzoryctes hovi ) is 
a small animal whose powers of destruction 
are a matter of no small concern to the 
farmers of Madagascar. 
The Long-tailed Microgale (Microgale 
longicaudata) likewise belongs to Madagas¬ 
car, and is notable among mammals for the 
possession of an extremely large number of 
caudal vertebrae. 
The Golden Geogale is a soft-furred 
mole-shrew whose habitat is the western 
part of Madagascar. Its main importance 
is a connecting-link between the preceding 
and following species. T j- 
The Java Tupaia (Tupaia javanicus) is smaller than its Indian congener, 
but has no other popular distinctions. , .. . , , _ 
The Borneo Feather-tailed Tupaia (Ptilocercus lowi ) is only about five 
inches in length, but its long tail is more strikingly ornamented than those 
'j'he Indian Tupaia ( Tupaia ferruginea ) is found in India and Sumatra. Its 
coat is silken, brown and yellow in coloring, and its bushy tail is very like 
that of a squirrel. Its head is prolonged into a whiskered snout, of which 
the pointed upper jaw is much the longer. It is arboreal, and its sharp claws 
render it quite successful as a climber. . , , 
The Oregon Mole (Scapanus townsendu ) is notable for having a very dark 
purple jq a j ry -tailed Mole (Scapanus breweri ) is found in the Western 
States, and is, for the purposes of The Living World, distinguished by the 
hairy covering of its tail. 
INDIAN TUPAIA. 
