56 SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. 



34. — Barbary Mouse. 



where the natives term it Phar Azeph, the Palmetto 

 mouse. Some time asro three individuals were living in 

 the vivarium of the Zool. Soc., Lond. ; and were de- 

 scribed and figured by Mr. Bennett, who may be said 

 to have really introduced this species to science : for, 

 since the time of Linnaeus, who first described the ani- 

 mal in the addenda to the twelfth edition (the last pub- 

 lished by himself) of his ' Systema Naturae,' no naturalist 

 appears to have seen it. So completely, indeed, had it 

 escaped the researches of later zoologists, that M. Des- 

 marest ventured to suffsrest a doubt of its existence. 

 (Fig. 34.) 



*' The ground-colour of the Barbary mouse is dark 

 brown, marked on each side with five or six yellowish 



