124 SHORT TAILED MOUSE. Class I.. 



ending with a little bufli, about a quarter of an inch 

 long. The leg^, particularly the fore legs, very 

 Ihort. 

 Manners. This animal makes its ncfl: in moid meadows, 

 and brings eight young at a time : it has a ftrong 

 afFedlion for them : one that was feduced into a 

 wire-trap, by placeing its brood in it, was fo intent 

 on foilering them, that it appeared quite regardlefs 

 of its captivity. The manners of this creature 

 much refemble the 28th fpecies : like it, thisrefides 

 under ground, and lives on nut^ acorn?, but 

 particularly on corn : it differs from the former in 

 the place of its abode : feldom infcfting gardens. 



It has been obferved that in houfing a rick of 

 corn, the dogs have devoured all the mice of this 

 fpecies that they could catch, and rejeded the com- 

 mon kind i and that the cats on the contrary would 

 touch none but the laft. 



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