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hair a dark slate- colour. Length from nose to hase of tail five 

 or six inches ; length of tail about four inches. 

 Inhabits South Africa, — about Port Natal. 



Mus Ciiffer, Smith. (Caffer Mouse.) Hair long and 

 very soft ; head slender. Colour above blue-grey or brown- 

 - grey ; sides and outer surface of hinder extremities tbe same, 

 only of a lighter tint ; the under parts of neck, breast, and 

 belly, the inner surfaces of hinder extremities, tbe fore legs, and 

 all the feet, greyish white ; tail tbinly covered with a very 

 short tine hair, greyish white with a faint tinge of brown ; ears 

 rather long and of an oval form, the inner surfaces thinly 

 spiiidcled with minute white hairs, and the outer ones with 

 blackish hairs ; whiskers long, soft, and of the same colour as 

 the back. Lenglh from nose to base of tail three inches and a 

 half; length of tail three inches. 



Inhabits teouth Africa, — Caffcrlaud. 



Mus minutoides. Smith. Hair rather short and rigid. 

 Top of head, upper part of neck, and centre of back, finely 

 pencilled black, bi'own, and tawny, each hair being annulated 

 with two of those colours near the point, the latter in most of 

 them black ; face, sides of head, outer surfaces of extremities 

 towards body, and the sides of the body, rufous yellow or fawn 

 coloured, and here and there finely pencilled with black ; upper 

 lip, chin, throat, breast, belly, and inner sides of extremities to- 

 wards body pure white; lower parts of extremities reddish 

 white ; tail brownish, distinctly annulated and thinly sprinkled 

 with fine short whitish hair ; whiskers pale brown ; ears nearly 

 bare, and the few hairs that do occur on them are very short and 

 of a tawny hue. Length from nose to base of tail three inches ; 

 length of tail two inches and a quarter The bases of the hairs 

 on the back and sides are a dark slate colour, those on the under 

 parts are like the tips pure white. 



Inhabits South Africa — near Cape Town. 



Mus Barharvs, Lin. (Barhary Mouse.) Ground colour 

 fuscous brown above, intermingled with a iew yellow hairs, and 

 marked on each side with five or six continuous longitudinal 

 yellowish lines, narrower than the intervening spaces, and 

 blended gradually with the under surface, which is pale, and 

 between the fore legs nearly pure white. Ears moderately 

 large, rounded and covered with so short a fur as to cause them 

 to appear naked. Anterior feet with the outer and inner toes 

 merely rudimentary, so that three only are remarkable, and of 

 these the two inner are the longest ; the three middle toes of 

 the hinder feet very long, the inner one rudimentary, and the 



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