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tending to spread widely over sides, zvith ivhich as zvell as with ru?np 

 it for7tis no marked constrast. Feet and tail shorter than in E. 

 hercynicus rubidus. 



Color. — Sumtner pelage : dorsal stripe broad, very ill defined and 

 spreading irregularly over sides. Its general color is mummy brov^^n 

 or somewhat more red, resulting from a slightly different combination 

 of the tints that produce the mars brown of E. hercynicus rubidus. 

 Sides and cheeks broccoli-brown slightly tinged with buff and like the 

 back thickly sprinkled with black tipped hairs. Underparts buff, 

 sometimes clear and pale, often dai'k and brownish. Rump forming 

 no distinct contrast with back. Ears like dorsal stripe. Tail bicolor 

 but not very conspicuously so, blackish brown above, dull white be- 

 low. Feet wlytish, much tinged with brown. Wiiiter pelage as in 

 E. hercynicus rubidus. 



Meastirements . — Average of twenty specimens from southern Eng- 

 land : total length 146; tail vertebras 46.6; hind foot with claws 

 17. S; hind foot without claws 16.8. For details see table, page 109. 



Specitnens examined. — Forty-three (Miller collection) from the 

 following localities: England: Aberia, Merionethshire, 3; Basing- 

 stoke, Hampshire, 19; Eversley, Hampshire, 9; Graftonbury, Here- 

 ford, 2 ; Leigh Woods, Clifton, 2 ; Lilford, Northants, i ; New 

 Forest, Hants, 4; Oundle, Northants, i. Scotland: Dumphail, 

 Elgin, 4. 



Remarks. — The British redbacked mouse needs comparison with 

 only one of the Continental races, Evotomys hercynicus rubidus. 

 With this form it agrees in color, though carrying the peculiarities to 

 a slightly greater extreme. In general size it equals the other races : 

 but the hind foot is distinctly smaller, while in shortness of tail it is 

 exceeded by E. hercynicus suecicus only. This animal is the 

 ^ glareohis' of all authors dealing exclusively with British mammals. 



