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March 1913.^ The dorsal tints appear to be somewhat 

 colder, or less rufous, than in older specimens. The bellies 

 are silvery and show no trace of a buff suffusion : in the two 

 males there is no trace of a pectoral spot, but a minute 

 pectoral spot of buff is present in the female. The feet are 

 white, and the tails distinctly bicoloured. 



The young are dusky, House Mice-like creatures, dis- 

 tinguishable from the House Mice in this collection by their 

 larger, almost dead white feet and bicoloured tails. No 

 sexual differences of coloration are visible in this series 

 of young. 



B. Barvas, Lewis. — Mr Hony collected twenty-one 

 Field Mice at this place ; of these sixteen are adult, one is 

 changing into the adult coat, and four are immature. The 

 following are the dimensions taken in the flesh by the 

 collector : — 



^ Hinton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol xiv., p. 124, July 

 1914 ; Barrett-Hamilton and Hinton, British Mammals^ ii., p. 533. 



