the Jumping Moufe of Canada, 157 



appearance of food, I conceive they deep during the winter, and 

 remain for that term without fuftenance. As foon as I conveyed 

 this fpecimen to my houfe, I depofited it, as it was, in a fmall chip- 

 box, in fome cotton, waiting with great anxiety for its waking; 

 but that not taking place at the feafon they generally appear, I 

 kept it until I found it begin to fmell r I then (tuffed it, and pre- 

 ferved it in its torpid pofition. I am led to believe its not recover- 

 ing from that date arofe from the heat of my room during the 

 time it was in the box, a fire having been conftantly burning in 

 the ftove, and which in all probability was too great for refpira- 

 tion. I am led to this conception from my experience of the Snow 

 Bird of that country, which always expires in a few days (after being 

 caught, although it feeds perfectly well) if expofed to the heat of a 

 room with a fire or ftove ; but being nouriihed with fnow, and kept 

 in a cold room or paffage, will live to the middle of fummer. 



The animal above defcribed belongs to Schreber's genus of Dipus % 

 and may be characterifed 



DIPUS CANADENSIS, 



palmis tetradaElylis, plantis pentadadlylis^ caudd annulatd undique fetcfii 



cor pore Jongiore. 



Tab. viii. Fig, 5. reprefents the Dipus canadenfhy of its natural fize, 

 in an erect pofition. 



Fig. 6. fhews it in a torpid ftate, 



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