. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. their general colour. I have one beautiful pure white variety with pink eyes, which was picked up dead some years ago in Yorkshire. There used to be all sorts of superstitions about shrews; but, these are fast dying out, though remnants of them still remain. Shrews have a peculiar musky smell,- and though cats will catch them readily, they seldom eat them, though owls, kestrels, weasels, and stoats will do so readily. The lesser shrew—our smallest British mammal—is very much, rarer than the common one, though distri
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. their general colour. I have one beautiful pure white variety with pink eyes, which was picked up dead some years ago in Yorkshire. There used to be all sorts of superstitions about shrews; but, these are fast dying out, though remnants of them still remain. Shrews have a peculiar musky smell,- and though cats will catch them readily, they seldom eat them, though owls, kestrels, weasels, and stoats will do so readily. The lesser shrew—our smallest British mammal—is very much, rarer than the common one, though districts it is fairly abundant. It has a proportionately much longer and more hairy tail than the common shrew has, and is darker in colour; the arrangement of the teeth is also different. I have trapped them, as I have done the water shrew, using a bit of rabbits liver as bait. The water shrew is a very handsome little animal, looking to the casual observer like a miniature mole. It is common in many places, frequenting the sides of ditches, ponds, and streams, 12G. riiotograpli by MeUalJe, PukeDOEMICL. Mice, Voles, and Rats 127
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