. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. I the THE COMMON SHEEW. The most numerous family of the Insect-Eating animals is that Shrews, and the typical species of this family is the Common Shrew of Europe, which is no larger than a common Mouse, but is a fierce, sanguinary and voracious little creature. The characteristics of the animal are well shown in the picture, and the little insect which is being pursued is evidently doomed. {Sorex vulgaris.) destitute of any hairy covering, but they grow apa
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. I the THE COMMON SHEEW. The most numerous family of the Insect-Eating animals is that Shrews, and the typical species of this family is the Common Shrew of Europe, which is no larger than a common Mouse, but is a fierce, sanguinary and voracious little creature. The characteristics of the animal are well shown in the picture, and the little insect which is being pursued is evidently doomed. {Sorex vulgaris.) destitute of any hairy covering, but they grow apace, and in a month they are able to ply their craft. THE SHREWS PROPER. In the first sub-order we include the Shrews proper (Soricince). They constitute the center of the family; their teeth are from twenty-eight to thirty-two in number, the skull is long and narrow and there are no webs between the toes. Description of The Shrews in the narrowest sense the Common {Sorex) are distinguished by having Shrew. thirty-two teeth, tipped with dark- brown, feet and toes surrounded on all sides with short, soft hair, and a tail clothed in fur of uniform length. Their typical representative is the Common Shrew (Sorex vulgaris). It is somewhat inferior in size to the domestic Mouse; its length is four and one-half inches, one and three-fourths inches of which is taken by the tail. The coloring of the fine, velvety fur ranges between a vivid reddish brown and the most lustrous black; the sides always exhibit a lighter tinge than the back, the lower parts are grayish white with a surface tinge of brown; the lips are whitish, the long whisker hairs black, the "â paws brownish, the tail dark brown on its upper and brownish yellow on its under surface. The various tints have given rise to different classifications, some authorities recognizing several species, others con- sidering them only varieties. Range of the The Common Shrew is found in Common Germany, Sweden, England, France, Shre
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