the Fumping Moufe of Canada. 157 
appearance of food, I conceive they fleep during the winter, and 
remain for that term without fuftenance. As foon as I conveyed 
‘this fpecimen to my houfe, I depofited it, as it was, in a fmall chip- 
box, in fome cotton, waiting with great anxiety for its waking; 
but that not taking place at the feafon they generally appear, I 
kept it until I found it begin to fmell: I then ftuffed it, and pre- 
Served at in its torpid pofition. I, am led to believe itsnot recoyer- 
ing from that ftate arofe from the heat of my room during the 
time it was in the box, a fire having been conftantly burning in 
the ftove, and which in all probability was too great for refpira- 
tion. I am led to this conception from my experience of the Snow 
Bird of that country, which always expires in a few days (after being 
caught, although it feeds perfeétly well) if expofed to the heat of a 
room with a fire or ftove ; but being nourifhed with fnow, and kept 
in acoldr room or paffage, will live to the middle of fummer. 
‘The animal above defcribed belongs to Schreber’s genus of Dipus, 
and may ‘be character ifed 
yw aed ig ci i DIPUS cANADENSIS, 
jinss tetradaéigls, plantis pentadactylis, caudé annulatd undique fetofé 
corpore longiore. 
epee ss UF 
Tab, viii. Fig! 5: sctinitenta the Dipus sak of its nateral fize, 
in an ere& pofition. 
ae: 6. mews 3 it in a torpid fate.” 
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