Eurasian water shrew, Neomys fodiens, and common shrew, Sorex araneus. Sorex fodiens. After illustrations by Jacques de Seve for the Comte de Buffon. Copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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