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RODENTIA 



MiCROMYS MiNUTUS soRiciNUS Hermann. 



1780. Mils soricinns Hermann iu Schreber, Siiugethicre, iv, p. 661, 



pi. CLXXXiii B. (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1785. [Mus] triticcus Boddaert, Elenchus Anim., i, p. Ill (Hampshire, 



England). 

 1789. Mils minimus White, Nat. Hist, and Antiqu. of Selborne, p. 43 ; 



described, pp. 33, 34 and 39 (Selborne, Hampshire, England). 

 1792. Mus messorius Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 230 (Hampshire, England). 

 1794. ^^ Mus avenarius Wolf, Versuche die Feldraiiuse zu vertilgen, p. 16, 



315," Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61, 1804 (Locality not men- 

 tioned). 

 1804. Mus pendulimis Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61 (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1804. Mus parmilus Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61 (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1816. ? Mus arvensis Leach, Syst. Catal. Spec. Indig. Mamm. and Birds, 



Brit. Mus., p. 7 (Nomen nudum : "Harvest Rat "). 

 1822. 3fus campcstris Desmarest, JIammalogie, pt. 2, p. 543 (France). 

 1832. Mlus] mcridionalis Costa, Fauna del Regno di Napoli, p. 13 (Vicinity 



of Naples, Italy). 



1840. Mus minatus Schinz, Europ. Fauna, i, p. 70. 



1841. Micromys agilis Dehne, INIicromys agilis, ein neues Siiugthier der 



Fauna von Dresden, p. 1 (Dresden, German}'). 



1841. Mus oryzivonis de Si^lys-Longchamps, Atti della seconda Riunione 



degli Scienziati Italiani, Torino, 1840, p. 247 (Rice fields of 

 Lombardy, Italy). 



1842. Mus pumilus F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif., Tabl. gen. et 



Meth., p. 4. Described in fasc. xxxii, October, 1821 (Vicinity of 

 Paris, France). 



1857. j\[us minutus Blasius, Siiugethicre Deutschlands, p. 326. 



lyOC). Mus minutus agilis Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and INlag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., v, p. 629, June, 1900 (Brunswick, Germany). 

 1900. Mus minutus campestris Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and INIag. Nat. 



Hist., 7th ser., v, p. 529, June, 1900 (Waremmc, Liege, Belgium). 

 1900. Mus minutus minimus Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., v, p. 530, June, 1900 (England). 

 1910. Mus (Apodemus) minutus agilis, M. (A.) minutus campcstris, M. (A.) 



minutus minimus and M. {A.) mcridionalis Trouessart, Faune 



Mamm. d'Europc, pp. 1.56, 157. 



Tjipe locidUy. — Strassburg, Germany. 



Geographical distribution. — Central Europe from Great Britain 

 to eastern Germany, and from Scotland (Aberdeenshire) and 

 Denmark south to Italy and southern France. 



Diagnosis. — Colour of upjjer jiarts essentially uniform through- 

 out, the shoulders, neck and head never conspicuously greyish. 



Colour. — Winter pelage (England and Switzerland) : upper 

 parts a nearly uniform reddish brown approaching the tawny of 

 Ridgway but more vivid, especially along median region ; neck 

 and head sometimes not so bright as back, but never sufficiently 

 so to produce any marked contrast ; sides of body and outer 

 surface of legs fading toward ochraceous-buft" ; back very 

 inconspicuously sprinkled with black-tijiped hairs ; ear concolor 



