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 - SIIUKW MOLE In the genus Marina (Gray) the body is stout, the tail shorter than the head, with short bristly iair and small brush at tip; the hands large in proportion to the feet, and the soles usually hairy it the heels; skull short and broad ; ears very short, with the c-xu-nml surface densely
 * ,ia genus, peculiar to America, is

also divi.i.,1 into sections, one with 82, the pouU. (Jniy), the largest of the American shrews, 4} in. long, is found from Nova Scotia to Lake Superior, and south to Georgia; it is Common EUTOIHWI shivw (Soro.x araneus). dark ashy gray above and paler below, with whitish feet Several other species are de- scribed by Baird, of which two are in Mexico and Texas. In the old world, among the spe- cies of torex, subdivided into several by Wag- ler, and called mumraigne* by the French, is the common European shrew (S. araneus, Linn.), 4| to 6 in. long, of which the tail is 1$ in.; the color is reddish mouse above and h In-low; it is found in dry places very generally over Europe. The shrews appear during the miocene age in small numbers, and continue through the diluvial epoch to the present time, without material change. SHREW MOLE. See MOTE. SHREWSBURY, the shire town of Shropshire, England, on the river Severn, 140 m. N. W. pop. in 1871, 23,406. The remains nt castle are still standing, and also a portion of the ancient walls of the city. >*sed by two bridges; there is a canal, and railways connect it with all parts of the kingdom. Shrewsbury is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and in 1872 had 12 places of worship. The principal manu- vas; and there are extensive iron works at Joleham, a suburb. The salmon fishery of the Severn is valuable. There is a considerable trade in Welsh flannels. Shrewsbury was im- portant in the 5th century, and is prominent history as a royal residence for rt periods. Its original name of Pengwern SHRIMP was changed by the Saxons to Scrobbesbyrig (Scrubsborough), of which Shrewsbury is a corruption. Parliaments were held here in 1283 and 1398; and a battle was fought here in 1403 between the royalist troops and the insurgents under Douglas and Hotspur, in which the latter was killed. (See PERCY.) SHRIKE. See BUTCHER BIRD. SHRIMP, a common decapod or ten-footed and long-tailed crustacean, of the genus cran- gon (Fabr.) ; with the prawn (palcemoii) it is called crevette by the French. The integu- ment is corneous, the carapace considerably flattened, the abdomen very large, and the tail powerful ; the rostrum very short ; eyes large and free ; antennae inserted about on the same transverse line, the internal pair the shortest and ending in two many-jointed filaments, the outer larger and longer ; mandibles slender and without palpi ; jaw feet moderate, with a ter- minal flattened joint and a short palpus on the inside ; sternum very wide behind ; first pair of feet strong, ending in a flattened hand hav- ing a movable hook opposed to an immovable tooth ; second and third pairs of legs very slen- der, and the fourth and fifth much stronger ; branchiae seven on each side, consisting of hor- izontal lamellae ; false swimming feet on under side of abdomen large, and caudal plates wide. The common shrimp (C. vulgaris, Fabr.) is 1J to 2 in. long, greenish gray spotted with brown ; the carapace is smooth, except a spine behind the rostrum, one on the sternum, and seven on each side of the thorax; abdomen without ridges or spines, and middle caudal plate pointed and not grooved below. It is common on the coasts of Europe, and in Eng- land and France it is much used as food. The shrimpers catch these animals in large nets with a semicircular mouth, which they push before them along the bottom during ebb tide ; this fishery gives employment to many hundred people in Great Britain. Shrimps are used in the United States chiefly as bait. They spawn throughout most of the year, carrying the eggs Common Shrimp (Crangon vulgaris). attached to the swimming appendages, and cast their skins from March to June. They feed on such animals as they can seize with their claws, and on what may be killed by the
 * h. The mole shrew (A to*-
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