354 MUSCARDINID^E— MUSCARDINUS 



1758. Mus avellanarius, Carolus Linnasus, Systema Natures, x., 62 ; xii., 83, 



1766; described from Upsala, Sweden ; Berkenhout. 

 1777. SciURUS AVELLANARIUS, J. C. R. Erxleben, Systema Regni Animalis, Gen. 39, 



sp. 16, 433- 

 1788. MYOXUS MUSCARDINUS, J. F. Gmelin, Systema Natures, I, 156; renaming 



Mus avellanarius ; Bingley ; Turton ; Kerr ; Donovan. 

 1 79 1. GLIS avellanarius, J. F. Blumenbach, Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, 



ed. 4, 70. 

 1820. MYOXUS AVELLANARIUS, A. G. Desmarest, Mammalogie, 295 ; Shaw ; 



Fleming ; Jenyns ; MacGillivray ; Bell, edd. i. and ii. ; Keyserling and Blasius ; 



Blasius ; Clermont ; Fatio. 

 1843. MUSCARDINUS AVELLANARIUS, J. E. Gray, List of the Specimens of Mammalia, 



133 ; C. L. Reuvens, Die Myoxidce oder Schlcefer, 1890, 69 ; Flower and Lydekker ; 



Lydekker ; Aflalo ; Thomas, Zoologist, 1898, 100; Johnston; Winge ; Trouessart ; 



Millais ; Miller. 

 1869. "Mus CORILINUM, Schreb. Saeugeth. iii., p. 835, n. 14" ; Victor Fatio, Vertebres 



de la Suisee, i., 183 ; but the name is not found in Schreber, and apparently 



originated in Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus, lib. xxii., 182 (ed. of 15 19). 

 1900. MUSCARDINUS AVELLANARIUS TYPICUS, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. (London), 6th February, 86 = ^/. avellanarius avellanarius (Linnasus). 

 1900. MUSCARDINUS AVELLANARIUS ANGLICUS, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, loc. cit.; 



described from Bedford Purlieus, Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire, from a specimen 



in full, rich winter pelage ; Trouessart. 



Le Muscardin of the French ; die Haselmaus of the Germans (not 

 le Loire ■= der Siebenscklafer=\.he. Fat Dormouse = Glis glis ; not le 

 Lerot = der Gartenschlafer =\he Garden Dormouse = Eliomys quercinus). 



Synonymy and History : — There is no difficulty about the proper 

 technical name for this little dormouse, which appears to have been first 

 described by Aldrovandus in 1637. Previous to that date it was 

 probably passed over or confused with the larger species found in 

 continental Europe Topsel (1658) was evidently not acquainted with 

 it, for his chapter " Of the Dormouse " refers to Glis, and that " Of the 

 Nut-mouse, Hazel-mouse, or Filbird-mouse" is headed by a drawing of 

 Eliomys, and clearly deals with that animal. Although known to 

 Merrett and Ray, it was not mentioned by Gilbert White. It appears 

 in all Pennant's editions, and in 1758 was figured by Edwards {Gleanings 

 of Natural History, chap, lvi., pi. 266, opp. p. 118). 



Terminology : — Dormouse, plural dormice, from Middle English 

 dormous, spelt also dormows or dormouse (15th century), is usually 

 derived from dorm, used as verb and substantive in the north country, 

 Yorkshire and Derbyshire = to doze + mouse = " doze-mouse." Although 

 probably of earlier date, it is not known before 1425 (see N. E. Diet.). 

 The word is applied also to bats, as in Gloucestershire {Dial. Diet.). 



There being only one British species, there is no need to use an 

 adjective to distinguish our Dormouse ; but it is often called the 



