. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 629 li'Ndng in a similar manner in the region of the Pyrenees, is very much smaller, has a round tail, and a proportionally longer snout. Fossil remains of M. moscJiafa occur in the Norfolk Forest bed, and were originally described under the name of Pala' The genus is also represented in the ^Middle and Lower Miocene of the Continent. Urotrichus.^—Dentition : i ^, c +, » 4 or 4, in 4 ; total 36. Feet not webbed; manus broad. Habits fossorial. The Mole-Shrews,. Fig. 280.—The Desman I^Myogaie moschata). ^ n
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. 629 li'Ndng in a similar manner in the region of the Pyrenees, is very much smaller, has a round tail, and a proportionally longer snout. Fossil remains of M. moscJiafa occur in the Norfolk Forest bed, and were originally described under the name of Pala' The genus is also represented in the ^Middle and Lower Miocene of the Continent. Urotrichus.^—Dentition : i ^, c +, » 4 or 4, in 4 ; total 36. Feet not webbed; manus broad. Habits fossorial. The Mole-Shrews,. Fig. 280.—The Desman I^Myogaie moschata). ^ natural size. as these animals are called, are represented by U. talpvides of the mountains of Japan and U. gihhsi of Xorth America. These two species are small and closely allied animals; the American form (which it has been proposed to separate subgenerically as Xcuro- trichus) havingp f. —Dentition : i f, c ^, p f, m f; total 34. jManus narrow; tail naked and scaly. Habits cursorial. The single species, U. S"ricipies, from the borders of Tibet, is a slate-coloured animal with the external form of a Shrew but the skull of a ilole. ' Temminck, Fnuna Japonica, vol. i. p. 22 (1S42\ Arch, du Mustum, vol. vii. Bull. p. 92 (lirl). Jlibie-Edwards,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, A. and C. Black
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