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mice ' the specific names based on European members of the 

 genus Evototnys must be examined in detail. There are eleven 

 of these. 



Bicolor. Myodes bicolor Fatio, Revue et Magasiii de zoologie, 2^ 

 ser., XIV, p. 357, July, 1862. Although I have seen no topotypes of 

 this annual I have little doubt that it is the boreal redbacked mouse of 

 northern Switzerland, Evotoviys nageri Schinz. The type was taken 

 in the Genthal, Berne, Switzerland, at an altitude of iSoo m. 



Fulvus. Arvicola fulvus Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, II, p. 

 40, 1828. This name, as pointed out long ago by De Selys-Long- 

 champs," applies to the redbacked mouse of France.^ It is, however, 

 a mere misidentification of the Lennnus fulvjis of Etienne Geoffroy 

 St. Hilaire* and the Arvicola fulvus of Desmarest, a species of 

 Microtus (see De Selys-Longchamps, Faune Beige, I, pp. 34-35. 

 1842). 



Glareolus. Mus glareolus Schreber, Siiugthiere, IV, p. 680. 

 The specific name glareolus was applied by Schreber to a short-eared 

 mouse found by O. F. Midler among the beach vegetation of the 

 Island of Laaland, Denmark.^ The animal is described in the text at 

 the end of the account of Mus ceconomus^ and is figured on plate 190 

 B. The description is as follows: "It is cinnamon brown, darker on 

 the middle of the back and whitish gray on the belly. The whiskers 



• For detailed treatmeut of the subject see North American Fauna, no. 12, 

 July 23, 1896. Note on the name Anaptog07iia : Proc. Biolog. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, XIII, p. 154, June 13, 1900. 



^^^ Nota. Li' Arvicola /7ilviis de M. Millet, Faune-de-Maine-et-Loire, se rap- 

 porte a VArv. rubidus \j^ Evotoviys hercyniciis rubidiis'\ et non a uotre Fulvus. 

 Le meme erreur existe dans plusieurs musees d'Allemagne. " Mouogr. de 

 Micromamm., |jp. 99. 1S39. 



3 The original description is as follows : " Pelage roux-fauve en dessus ; d'uu 

 gris roussatre sur les cot^s ; d'un blanc teint de jaunatre en dessous ; queue 

 velue ; un peu plus courte que la moitid du corps, noiratre en dessus blanchatre 

 en dessous ; pieds blanchatres ; oreillcs courtes, ovales, arrondies, tres-velues 

 en dedans et en dehors. Longueur du corps et de la tete 3 ponces 9 lignes [95 

 mm.], de la queue 22 lignes [47mm.] ..." This copy was kindly furnished by 

 Mr. Witmer Stone. 



'Cat. JNIanim. Museum d'Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 1S7. 1S03. The original de- 

 scription, a copy of which was recently made for me by Miss Thora Steineger, 

 is as follows : "Queue plus courte que la moiti^ du corps, et plus velue que 

 dans les pr(ic(!'dcus [?]; les poils sont tons cendres dans leur presque totality et 

 fauves seulcment a l'extr(jmit^ ; les ongles sont jaunes, les oreilles presque 

 euticremcnt cachd-s par les poils." 



5 "... in dor lusel Laland zwischen dem Elyniiis arcnarius im Sande am 

 Ufer der Ostsee. . ." 



