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NOTES ON TWO COLLECTIONS OF MICE 

 FROM LEWIS, OUTER HEBRIDES 



By Martin A. C. Hinton and G. Bathurst Hony, B.A. 



Tins paper deals with two collections of Field Mice and 

 House Mice from Lewis, Outer Hebrides. One of these 

 was made in September 1914, at the extreme north of the 

 island — the Butt of Lewis — by Dr Eagle Clarke, who most 

 kindly lent his specimens to us for description ; the other 

 was made by Mr Hony in July 1914 at Barvas in north- 

 western Lewis. 



I. Apodemus HEBRIDENSIS, de Winton. 

 (The Hebridean Field Mouse.) 



A. Butt of Lewis. — Dr Eagle Clarke obtained ten speci- 

 mens, of which three are in an adult, and seven in a juvenile 

 pelage. The following are the dimensions in millimetres 

 taken in the flesh by the collector : — 



* Juvenile. 



Besides these, six young Field Mice were taken on the 

 29th September ; the collector recorded no measurements of 

 these specimens, but the length of the hind-foot, taken on 

 the skins, appears to vary between 21-3 and 22 mm. 



The three adults in this series are really quite young 

 animals, their teeth being but slightly worn ; they are 

 probably in the first adult coat, and agree closely with some 

 of the specimens taken by Mr Anderson at Stornoway, in 



