Fig. 102. MYOXUS NITELA (on the Eight). 

 MYOXUS GLIS (on the Left). 



MYOXUS. 



SOMNICULOSUS GLIS. 



CHAPTER XLI. 



THERE are in Europe three species of Dormice : first, 

 the little animal about the size of a mouse, which 

 school-boys keep in their lockers. I need not describe 

 this : it appears to be common here, for I asked my 

 gardener to get me one, and he brought, in a short 

 time, a family of them imprisoned in a flower pot. 

 The native name is " Loir," the scientific is Myoxm 

 Avellana. 



The second species, Myoxus Nitela (Fig. 102), I am 

 not so well acquainted with : but there is in the valley 

 of the Vesubia, at 3,000 feet, and higher up, an animal 

 which they call " Rat Fleuri." This is almost cer- 

 tainly the Nitela. It has elegant light and dark 



