THE GARDEN DORMOUSE. 



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the dormouse regains its full activity, and it is at this 

 period that its magazine is of the greatest service : for, 

 without a store thus providently accumulated, it would, 

 for some time at least, be straightened for food. 



The head of this species is proportionably large ; the 

 eyes are large, black, and prominent; the ears are broad ; 

 the fur soft ; the tail long, fringed with hair on each side, 

 and somewhat tufted at the end; the body plump; the 

 limbs short. General colour cinnamon red, passing 

 into pale yellow below. The young are of a mouse-gray. 

 Length of the head and body two inches eight lines ; of 

 the tail, two inches six lines. (Fig. 14.) 



The Garden Dormouse, or Lerot 



{Myoxus Niteld). 

 The greater Dormouse of Shaw. This species is a 

 native of the whole of the temperate portions of conti- 



15. — Lerot, or Garden Dormouse. 



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