Class I. N O R W A Y R A T. 115 



Among other officers, his Britijh majefty has a Kin-g's rat. 

 rat-catcher^ diftinguifhed by a particular drefs, fear- 

 let embroidered with yellow worlled, in which are 

 figures of mice deftroying wheat-ilieaves. 



Mus fylveflris. Rat de bois. Mus norvegicus. Kleiji quad. 26. Brown, 



BriJJon quad. 20. 56. 



Le Surmulot. De Buffon,Tom. Mus ex norvegia. Seb. Mus. 



viii. 206, Tab. 27. To?n. ii. 64. Tab. 6^. 



Br, Zool./^j.Syn. quad. No. 227. 



THIS is a very large fpecies ; thicker, and of Descrip, 

 a ftronger make than the common rat : the 

 length from the end of the nofc to the beginning of 

 the tail, is nine inches -, the length of the tail the 

 fame \ the ufual weight eleven ounces : the ears 

 refemble thofe of the rat: the eyes large and black : 

 the color of the head and whole upper part of 

 the body is a light brown, mixed with tawny and 

 alh-color: the end of the nofe, the throat and belly, 

 are of a dirty white, inclining to grey: the feet 

 and legs almofl bare ; and of a dirty pale flefh-co- 

 lor : the beginning of the tail is of the fame color 

 as the back; the reft of the tail is covered with mi- 

 nute dufky fcajes, mixed with a few hairs. 



This is the fpecies well known in this kingdom Hist, 

 under the name of the Norway rat-, but it is an 

 animal quite unknown in Scandinavia^ as we have 

 been aflured by feveral natives of the countries 



that 



