78 MAMMALIA. 



k. Skin F. Stolic?ka. 



/.»». 2 Alc.,i skull Yarkand, 11-73 F. Stoliczka. 



$ 

 [I'yP^s of Mus pachycercus, Blanford.] 



«. Ale. $ Eastern Turkestan J. Scully. 



? o. Skin, skull Resht, Caspian W. T. Blanford. 



Mus musculus. 



Mus musculus, Linncsus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 83 (1766) ; Blasius 

 Sdugetk. Deutschl., p. 320; Blyth Cat. no. 378, p. 118. 



Distribution. — Cosmopolitan, if as Thomas (Encycl. Brit., xvii, 

 p. 5) believes to be the case, Mus urbanus is indistinguishable from 

 this species ; the original home of Mus musculus was probably in 

 India. 



a. Stuffed England Mr. Kirtland (1845), A. S. B. 



b. Stuffed N. Carolina, U. S. A. Rev. F. Fitzgerald (1852), 



A. S B. 

 c-d. 2 Ale, I skull London "> A. D. Bartlett. 



e-f. 2 Ale, 1 skull ,, A. D. Bartlett. 



? 



Mus sylvaticus. 



Mus sylvaticus, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. '84 (1766); Blasius 

 Sdiigeth Deutschl., p. 322 ; Blyth. Cat. no. 373, p. 1 16. 



Distrihiiiion. — The whole of Europe, eastwards it is replaced by 



Mus arianus. 



a-d. 4 Ale, I skull London A. D. Bartlett. 



$ 

 e-f, 2 Ale, I skull „ A. D. Bartlett. 



? 

 g. Stuffed Switzerland A. Malherbe (1842), A. S. B. 



h-j. 2 Stuffed England A. D. Bartlett, A. S. B. 



Mus minutus. 



Mus minutus, Pallas Nov, Spec. Quad, e Glir., p. 345 (1778) ; Blasius 

 Sdugeth. Deutschl p. 326; Blyth Cat. no. 375, p. 117. 



Mus messorius, Shaw Genl., Zool., ii, pt. i, p. 62 (i8oi). 



Mus soricinus, pendulinus et parvulus Hermann Obs. Zool., i, pp. 57, 

 61, 62 (1804). 



Mus pratensis, Ocksay Nova Acta Acad. Zeop, Care, xv, pt, 2, p. 243, pL 

 Ixviii (1831). 



■ Distribution. — The Palaeartic region. 



a. Ale ^England H. E. Strickland (1844), A.S.B. 



Mus abyssinicus. 



Mus abyssinicus, Riippell Mus. Senck, iii, p. 104, pi. vii fig. i (1845) ; Elan' 

 ford Abyssinia, p. 283. 



