Mammalia. 153 



Bcarccly visible ; feet covered with short hair of the same 

 colour as the back, that on the toes darker. The thumb of tho 

 fore-foot is very short aud with a rudimentary nail. Leii<:th 

 from nose to base of tail seven inches and a half; length of tail 

 about five inches. 



Inhabits Egypt, Nubia, and Arabia, — in the fields. 



Hypudaeus variegatus, Licht. Doubl. Yerz. p. 2. 



Mus Piimilio, Sparm. (Cape Striped Mouse.) Hair mo- 

 derately lony: and rigid. The colour of the upper and lateral 

 parts of the head and neck, of the back, sides, and outer sur- 

 faces of extremities towards body, subferruginous or yellowish 

 irown, freely pencilled with black and sparingly with white ; 

 chin, lower parts of neck, breast, belly, and inner surfaces of 

 extremities, white, more or less mottled with rufous ; hind-feet 

 a pale ochre-colour. Between the hind-head and the root of 

 the tail four parallel, longitudinal, black stripes, and three dull 

 white or reddish white ones ; cars moderate and rounded, 

 their inner surfaces covered with short, rufous or chcsnut- 

 coloured liair, their outer surfaces by a mixture of short rufous 

 and black hairs ; and at the base of each a more or less distinct 

 white spot ; eyes large, deep black-brown, and surrounded by a 

 narrow indistinct circle of white hairs; vrhiskers long and black ; 

 upper incisors white ; tail scaly, annulated, and sparingly covered 

 with short hair, black above, and ochry-coloured on the sides 

 and under parts. The hairs of the upper and lateral parts of 

 the body are blackish towards the bases, subferruginous or 

 whitish towards the middle, and most of them with black points ; 

 the bases of the hairs on the under part are a dull black. 

 Length from nose to base of tail five inches ; length of tail four 

 inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — common in most parts of the colony. 



Var. A. — Greyish pencilled or variegated with subferru- 

 ginous and white colours ; a distinct white ring round each eye ; 

 outer and inner surfaces of cars covered with fine short rufous 

 or chesnut-coloured hairs, those of the former intermixed with 

 white ones. Upper incisors a dull orange-colour. Hairs mo- 

 derately rigid. 



Inhabits South Africa, — Namaqualand, — rather rare. 



Var. B. — Only a single black stripe along the centre of the 

 back. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Lincated Mouse, Shaw, Gen. Zoology, voLii. jmrt 1. p. 69. 

 t. 1 33. Striped Mouse of the Cape Cdonisls. 



Obs. In this ijpecies not only the shades but even the very colours 

 themselves vary considerably iu different specimens ;- those described 

 arc the most prevailing. 



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