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SKETCH or THE HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. 



and feet are white. 

 Soe.) 



(Specimens in Museum of Zool. 



The Long-tailed Field-Mouse (^Mus sylvaticus). 



Eyes full, black, and bright ; — colour above reddish 

 brown, beneath whitish ; ears more than half the length 

 of the head ; tail somewhat shorter than the head and 

 body. Length of head and body three inches eight lines. 

 It is Le Mulot of Buffon. (Fig. 36.) 



Long-tailed Field Mouse. 



This beautiful but mischievous little animal is spread 

 over the whole of temperate Europe. It frequents 

 woods, plantations, parks, orchards, and gardens, where 

 it commits great devastations. In some places it multi- 

 plies in hosts, and instances are on record of young 

 plantations covering acres having been totally destroyed 



