There are one or two species of shrews in the county, which I have not been able to identify. These animals are very numerous, and are the only species I have observed here. If the star- nosed mole exists here, I have not met with it.
Bats are numerous here, and belong mostly to the species named above.
Occasionally there is a wild cat seen in the county, but they are rare. It is only within the last ten or fifteen years that the red fox has been observed in this county. Previously to that time we had none but the common gray variety. The common weasel, probably the most rapacious, blood-thirsty and cruel of all carnivorous animals, is still found here, though in small numbers. These animals are very destructive to poultry, and therefore very unpopular with our good housewives.