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MicuuMvs MiNUTUS soKicixus Hermann. 



1780. Mits soricimis Hermann in Schrobcr, Siiugcthicre, iv, p. 6G1, 



pi. CLXXXiiiB. (Strassbiirg, Germany). 

 1785. [Mils] triticciis Boddaert, Elcnchus Anim., i, p. Ill (Harapshirc, 



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., ^. 230 (Hampshire, England). 

 1794. '■'Mus ave?iarius Wolf, Versuche die Feldmiiuse zu vertilgen, p. 16, 



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

 tioned). 

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

 1804. Mus parvul'Us Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61 (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1816. ? Mus arvensis Leach, Syst. Catal. Spec. Indig. ]\lanim. and Birds, 



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

 1822. Mus campcstris Desmarest, Mammalogie, pt. 2, p. 543 (France). 

 1832. M[us\ meridionalis 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, Micromys agilis, cin neues Siiugthicr der 



Fauna von Dresden, p. 1 (Dresden, Germany). 



1841. Mus orijzivorus de Selys-Longchamps, Atti della seconda Riunione 



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

 Lombardy, Italy). 



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



M6th., p. 4. Described in fasc. xxxii, October, 1821 (Vicinity of 



Paris, France). 

 1857. Mus mvmctus Blasius, Siiugethiore Dcutschlands, p. 326. 

 1900. Mas minutus agilis Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and INIag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., v, p. 529, June, 1900 (Brunswick, Germany). 

 1900. Mus minutus campestris Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and ]\Iag. Nat. 



Hist., 7th ser., v, p. 529, June, 1900 (Waremme, 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.) meridionalis Trouessart, Faune 



Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 156, 157. 



TijiK' locality. — Strassburg, Germany. 



Geographical distrihution. — Central Europe from Great Britain 

 to eastern Germany, and from Scotland (Aberdeenshire) and 

 Denmark south to Italy and southern France. 



Diagnosis. — Colour of upper parts essentially uniform through- 

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



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

 parts a nearly uniform reddish brown approaching the tawny of 

 K-idgway 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-bufF ; back very 

 inconspicuously sprinkled with black-tipped hairs ; ear concolor 



