554 MURIDA—MICROMYS 
THE HARVEST MOUSE. 
MICROMYS MINUTUS, Pallas. 
MICROMYS MINUTUS SORICINUS, Hermann. 
1771. MUS MINUTUS, P. S. Pallas, Rezse, 1, App., 454, described from the banks 
of the Volga, Russia ; also Mov. Spec. Glires, 1778, 96, 345, pl. xxiv. B., etc. ; as 
regards the typical form, of all subsequent writers. 
1780. MUS SORICINUS, Hermann in Schreber, Saugethiere, iv., 661, pl. clxxxiii. B. ; 
described from Strassburg, Germany ; Gmelin. 
1785. (MUS) TRITICEUS, Boddaert, Zvenchus Anim.,1., 111 ; described from Hamp- 
shire, England. 
1788. MUS SILVATICUS, var. 2., J. F. Gmelin, Syst Mat, 129; based on the 
“Harvest-Rat,” Pennant, Quad, ed. i., 302, n. 231. 
1789. MUS MINIMUS, Gilbert White, Vat. Hist. Selborne, 43, 33, 34, 39; described 
from Selborne, Hampshire ; 1/us minutus minimus, Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1900, 530 ; (Afodemus), Trouessart. 
1792. MUS MESSORIUS, Kerr, An. Kingdom, 230; described from Hampshire ; 
Shaw; Montagu; Pennant, 4777. Zool. i.. 121; Bingley; Turton; Fleming ; 
Jenyns ; Bell, ed. i. ; Macgillivray ; White, i., 58. 
1794. MUS AVENARIUS, Wolf, Versuche die Feldmaeusse zu vertilgen, 16, 315 ; not 
seen, cited by Hermann, Ods. Zool., 1804, 61. 
1804. MUS PENDULINUS and Mus PARVULUS, Hermann, Ods. Zool, 61; described 
from Strassburg, Germany. 
1816. ? MUS ARVENSIS, Leach, Syst, Cat. Spec. Indig. Mamm. and Birds, Brit. 
Mus., 7; a nomen nudum for “ Harvest Rat” from Devonshire. 
1822. MUS CAMPESTRIS, A. G. Desmarest, Mammal., ii. 543; described from 
France ; Mus minutus campestris, Barrett-Hamilton, Aun. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 
June 1900, 529; described from Waremme, Liége, Belgium; (Apodemus) 
Trouessart. 
1823. MUS MINUTUs, F. Boie, /szs, 970; described as very frequent in Schleswig 
and Holstein ; Mus messorius stated to be probably a synonym of M4. minutus, 
Pallas ; A. Brants (1827) ; Oken, Ad/g. Wat, vii. aé., 2, 718. 
1832. MUS MERIDIONALIS, Costa, Mauna Reg. Nap., 13; described from near 
Naples, Italy ; (Afodemus) Trouessart. 
1841. MICROMYS AGILIS, J. F. A. Dehne, “ Micromys agilis, kleinmaus, ein neues 
Saugthier der Fauna von Dresden,’ 1; described from Dresden, Germany ; Aus 
minutus agilis, Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1900, 529, 
from Brunswick, Germany ; (Afodemus) Trouessart. 
1841. MUS ORYZIVORUS, E. de Selys-Longchamps, Att d. seconda Riunione d. Sct. 
Italiani, Torino, 1840, 247 ; described from ricefields in Lombardy. 
1842. MUS PUMILUS, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. de Mamm., Tabl. Gen. et Méth., 4; 
described without name (in fasc. xxxii., October 1821) from vicinity of Paris, 
France. 
1912, MICROMYS MINUTUS SORICINUS, G. S. Miller, Catalogue, 844. 
The synonymy of the Harvest Mouse of western Europe, although 
long, is simple. In spite of the excellent description of Mus minutus 
