. Die populäre Naturgeschichte. Zoologie. Die RÜSSELHÜNDCHEN. 103 Die eigentümlich lange Nase des Elefanten Spitzmaus ist an der Spitze perforiert, um die Nasenlöcher, die ziemlich schräg platziert werden, und soll das Tier in seiner Suche nach den Insekten und andere Kreaturen auf, die sie ernährt. Die Augen sind eher groß im Verhältnis zu der Größe des Tieres. Der Schwanz ist lang und schlank, sehr ähnlich der selben Organ im gemeinsamen Maus und in einigen Mustern, vermutlich Männchen, ist an der Basis mit Glandulären Follikel, oder wenig sacs eingerichtet. Die Beine sind fast gleich groß sind, aber die hi

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. The popular natural history . Zoology. THE ELEPHANT SHREW. 103 The peculiarly long nose of the Elephant Shrew is perforated at its extremity by the nostrils, which are rather obliquely placed, and is supposed to aid the animal in its search after the insects and other creatures on which it feeds. The eyes are rather large in proportion to the size of the animal. The tail is long and slender, much resembling the same organ in the common mouse, and in some specimens, probably males, is furnished at the base with glandular follicles, or little sacs. The legs are nearly of equal size, but the hinder limbs are much longer than the forelegs, on account of the very great length of the feet, which are capable of affording support to the creature as it sits in an upright position. As might be presumed from the great length of the hinder limbs, the Elephant Shrew is possessed of great locomotive powers, and when alarmed, can skim over the ground with such. ELEPHANT ya-R.WN.—iMacroscetides Prohoscideus.) celerity that its form becomes quite obscured by the rapidity of its move- ment through the air. Its food consists of insects, which it captures in open day. Although the Elephant Shrew is a diurnal animal, seeking its prey in broad daylight, its habitation is made below the surface of thegroimd, and consists of a deep and tortuous burrow, the entrance to which is a perpendicularly- sunk shaft of some little depth. To this place of refuge the creature always flies when alarmed, and as it is so exceedingly swift in its movements, it is not readily captmed or intercepted. The colour of the fur is a dark and rather cloudy brown, which is warmed with a reddish tinge upon the side and flanks, and fades on the abdomen and inner portions of the limbs into a greyish-white. The generic name, Macros- celides, is of Greek origin, in allusion to the great length of its hinder limbs, and signifies " long-legged." It is but a small animal, as the length of the. Please note tha

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• booksubjectzoology
• bookyear1884