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RODENTIA 



EVOTOMYS GLAREOLUS GLAREOLUS Schrebei". 



1780. Mas glareolus Schreber, Saugthiere, iv, p. 680, pi. cxc b (LoUand, 



Denmark). 

 1792. Mus rutilus minor Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 237 (Casan and Goettingen). 



Based on Pallas, Glires, p. 247. Not Mus rattus viinor Kerr, 



Anim. Kingd., p. 229. 

 1792. ^Mus rutilus] /3 minor Donndorft', Zool. Beytriigo, i, p. -152. Based 



ou Pallas, Glires, p. 247. 

 1803. Lcvimics arvalis Geoffrey, Catal. Mammif. du ]\Ius. Nat. d'Hist. Nat., 



p. 185 (Meudon, Seine, France). Not Mtts arvalis Pallas. 

 1828. Arvicola fulvus Millet, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, ii, p. 40 (Angers, 



Maine-et-Loire, France). Not Lemimis fulvus Geoffroy, 1803. 

 1831. Hypudxus hercynicus IMehlis, Isis, p. 876 (Harz Mountains, Germany). 

 1884. Lemmiis ruhidus Baillon, M^m. Soc. Royale d'Emulation d'Abbeville, 



1833, 15. 54 (Abbeville, Somme, France). 

 1834. H[ypud;vus'] glareolus Melchior, Den Danske Stats og Norges 



Pattedyr, p. 116. 

 1836. Arvicola rufcsccns de S^lj-s-Longchamps, Essai Monogr. sur les 



Campagnols des Environs de Liege, p. 13 (Longchamps-sur-Ger, 



Belgium). 

 1842. Arvicola iwatensis F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif., vii, Tabl. 



Gen. et M6th. Described and figured in Livr. 68 of same work, 



1834 (Abbeville, Somme, France). 

 1857. Arvicola glareolus a. Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 337 (part). 

 1896. E[votomys'] glareolus Miller, North American Fauna, No. 12, p. 44, 



July 23, 1890. 

 1900. Evotomys hercynicus hercynicus Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. 



Sci., II, p. 100, July 26, 1900 (part). 

 1900. Evotomys hercynicus ruhidus Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 



II, p. 102, July 26, 1900. 



1909. Evotomys glareolus Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 8th ser., iii, 



pp. 419-420, May, 1909. 



1910. Evotomys glareolus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 170. 



Type locality. — Island of Lolland, Denmark. 



Geographical distrihution. — West-central Europe north of the 

 Alps and Pyrenees and south of the Baltic ; from the Atlantic 

 coast east to Silesia ; north-eastern limit of range not shown. 



Diagnosis. — General colour above dark, but usually rather 

 bright, the dorsal reddish area broad and diffuse ; usual measure- 

 ments of adults : hind foot, 16 '6 to 18 mm., condylobasal 

 length of skull, 23 to 24-6. 



Colour. — Winter pelage : red dorsal area diffuse and ill- 

 defined, extending from eyes nearly to base of tail and tending to 

 spread slightly over sides. In general colour it is very nearly 

 the mars-brown or prouts-brown of Ridgway, visually with a 

 tinge of russet, the exact shade resulting from vaiuous combina- 

 tions of cinnamon-rufous, vinaceous-rufous and black. Sides and 

 cheeks dull brownish buff thickly sprinkled with black. The 

 colour of sides merges insensibly into that of back and passes 

 abruptly into the strongly buff-tinged grey of belly. The buff 

 wash on ventral surface is variable, but usually conspicuous. 



