Common shrew, Sorex araneus 1, desman, Desmana moschata 2, and Cape golden mole, Chrysochloris asiatica 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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