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Dimensions (from a skin). Head and body 5'50 ; tail 4 -80 ; hind 

 foot -92. 



Distribution. The type is said by Brants to have come from the 

 neighbourhood of Algoa Bay ; Victoria obtained his specimens at 

 Eondebosch near Cape Town, and the South African Museum 

 possesses examples from Pondoland and Eustenberg in the 

 Transvaal. 



Mus VERKOXI, VBRREAUX'S EAT. 

 MILS vcrroxi, A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., ii., p. 156 (1831). 



Description. -General colour dark speckly brown, a little paler on 

 the sides and bluish white below, with slaty bases to the fur through- 

 out, no marked line of distinction of colour bat ween the sides and 

 lower surface ; tip of the nose noi white ; ears long and rounded 

 very nearly naked ; extremities dirty white, tarsal pads moderate, six 

 in number, the two proximal ones somewhat oval ; tail considerably 

 longer than the head and bady, distinctly bi-coloured, the rings fine 

 and not easily distinguishable, about 50 to the inch, tail-tip black 

 and slightly tufted ; mammae, in the only specimen in which they 

 could be made out, 10 in number 3 pairs pectoral and 2 pairs 

 inguinal. 



The above description, taken from a specimen in the South African 

 Museum, agrees well with M. cerroxi, as described by Smith, except 

 that the nose-tip is not white as asserted by Smith. 



Dimensions (from a skin). -Head and body 5'25 ; tail 6'0 ; hind 

 foot -90. 



Distribution. The type is described as being from the neighbour- 

 hood of Cape Town ; the specimens in the South African Museum 

 are from Eondebosch in the Cape Division. 



MUS MUSCULUS, THE HOUSE MOUSE. 



Mus musculus, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i., p. 83 (1766) ; 

 A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., ii., p. 154 (1834) ; LAYARD, Cat. 

 Mam. S. Afr. Mus., p. 50 (1862). 



Mus orientcdis, CRETZSCHMAR, Atlas zu der Eeise von Eiippell, 

 Saugethiere, p. 76, pi. xxx. (1826) ; GRILL ET SUNDEVALL, Victorin 

 Zool., Anteck. k. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockholm, ii., p. 18 (1858). 



Mus modestus, WAGNER, Arch. Naturges., i., p. 14 (1842); ID., 

 Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., iii., p. 432, pi. 181 e (1843). 



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