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W. Warrington obtained two specimens in a muskrat house not 

 far from Salem, November 21, 1898, sixty-two years after the 

 original one was taken. Subsequently Mr. Rhoads secured speci- 

 mens from muskrat houses on Cohansey Creek and at Greenwich, 

 and no doubt the mouse is found in similar localities all along 

 the tide water streams and marshes of southern New Jersey. 



Mtis palnstris Harlan, Silliman's Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts. 

 1837, p. 386. 



Oryzomys palnstris Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, 1898, 

 p. 480. — Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 81. 



Genus Pero;myscus Gloger. 

 Deer Mice. 

 Peromyscus leucopus (Raflnesque). 



White-Footed Mouse. 

 Plates 28 and 29, Fig. 2. 



Length 6.80 inches. Brownish fawn-color above, brighest on 

 the sides and darkest on the back where there is a considerable 

 sprinkling of black hairs ; white below, fur plumbeous at its 

 base, tail dusky above, light beneath, feet white. Young plum- 

 beous gray, white below. 



This is our most abundant native long-tailed mouse, found 

 about fence rows, in woods and thickets and under the over- 

 hanging banks of streams. It is a beautiful and harmless little 

 animal living upon all sorts of seeds, roots, nuts and such grain 

 as it finds scattered .about. It forms granaries or store houses 

 in hollows, in trees and similar receptacles and builds its nest in 

 all sorts of places sometimes making use of an old bird's nest ten 

 feet above the ground, this is covered over and thus protected 

 serves the mouse's purpose admirably. 



These mice are mainly nocturnal and their tracks in the 

 freshly fallen snow testify tO' their activity and abundance. In 

 camps and similar buildings out in the woods the white-footed 



