M FRIDJE. 



M:\-A. 



11. M. Atiat,cu4 (Gray), the Asiatic Rat Mexico and India. 



12. .V. m'rimWcr (Hodgson), the White-Bellied lUt NepauL 

 IS. M. Kok (Urny), the Kok. India. 



14. JV. ciolickunu (Temminck), the Hury-Eared Rat. South Africa, 



15. M. A>:yaiic>u (RUppeU), the Abyssinian Uat. Abyssinia. 

 18. II. ftl.oli. Elliot's Rat. Madras. 



17. M. ntfact** (Gray), the Red House-Rat India. 



18. M. atoipct (RiippeU), the White-Footed Rat. Abyssinia. 



19. M. UtoMternum (Riippell), the White-Cheated Rat Abyssinia. 



20. if. rarityatui (Brants), the Variegated Rat Egypt 



21. M. JJaKultu (Linutciu), the Common .Mouse. Great Britain and 

 Australia. 



22. M. mfatiiciu (Uunrcua), the Wood-Home. Great Britain. 

 83. it. Maud, the Mauci. Madras. 



21. .V. fiacipa (Waterhouse), the Brown-Footed Rat Australia, 

 Van Diemen'i Land, Ac. 



25. If. Oovldii (Waterhouse), the South Australian Rat South 

 Australia, 



26. U.ftuciu, the Brownish Rat South Australia. 



27. M. Aiutralanou, the Australasian Rat. South Australia. 



28. M. Knot UoUandict (Waterhouse), Waterhouse's Mouse. 

 Australia. 



29. if. delicatultu (Gould), the Delicate Mouse. Port Esaington. 

 80. M. p*milio (Sparmann), the Lineated Mouse. Cape of Good 



Hope. 



31. Micromyi minutiu (Selys de Longchamp), the Harvest-Mouse. 

 Great Britain. 



32. CaUomyi Icvcopiu (Waterhouse), the American Field-Mouse. 

 America. 



83. r<atdle*ria oleracea (Gray), the Meinalka. Madraa. 

 34. I". fhsjMMMisj, Hodgson's Free Mouse. Nepaul. 

 85. Nenkia llardvicku (Gray), the Nesoki. India. 



36. ftetulomyt Grayii, Gray's Pseudomys. Australia. 



37. P. Auttralu (Gray), the Pseudomys. Australia. 



38. Golunda Mlioti (Gray), the GalandL Madras. 



39. G. Mtttada (Gray), the Meltada. Madraa. 



40. G. Barbara, the Barbary Mouse. North Africa. 



41. Leggada Boodxya (Gray), the Buduga. Madras. 



42. L. ,Jatythrix (Gray), the Leggade. Madras. 



43. Ilolochilut aviculoida, the Bogota Rat Santa F<5 de Bogota. 



44. //. Bratilietuit, the Brazilian Rat Bahia. 



45. //. natuiut, the Sharp Nosed Rat Brazil (f). 



46. II. Anyouya (Brandt), the Angouya. Brazil 



47. Abrolhrij: tibtcuna (Waterhouse), the Dusky American Rat. 

 South America. 



48. Crictttufrumentariui (Pallas), the Hamster. Europe. 



49. Deadromys lypiciu (A. Smith), the Free Mouse. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



50. D. mdanottu (A. Smith), the Black Backed Free Mouse. Cape 

 ofGoodHopr. 



51. PhUtomyt Cuminyil (Watcrhouse), the Phlasomys. Manilla. 



52. Jfapalotii albipei (Lichteusteiu), the Rabbit-Rat. Australia 



53. //. mdanura (Gould), the Black-Tailed Rabbit-Rat. 



51. II. Gouidii (Gray), Gould's Rabbit-Rat Port Easiugton. 



6. Arricolina. 



65. iferiona labradoriiu (Richardson), the Katsc. North America. 

 56. faryotii irroratiu (Brants), the Vley Muis. South Africa. 



/ Hrantrii (A. Smith), the Vlakte Muis. Cape of Good Hope. 



58. . unitulcala (A. Smith), the One-Grooved KuryotU. 



59. Otomyi typiciu (A. Smith), the Otomys. Cape of Good Hope. 

 0. O. albicaudattu (A. Smith), the White-Tailed Otomys. Cape of 



Good Hope. 



61. Siymodon hupidum (Say), the Sigmodon. Florida. ' 



62. Ktotoma Floridana (Say), the Neotoma. Florida. 



63. Teonoma Drummondii, the Teouoma. North America. 



64. Cienodactytiu Mauoni (Gray), the Gundi. Cape of Good 

 Hope(f). 



66. ifynoma ripariut, the Bank Mcadow-Mousf. North America. 



66. Arvicola ampkMtu (Desmoulius), the Water Rot Great Britain. 



67. A.Amcricainu(Qnj), the American Water-Rat South America. 



68. A. Pauuylvanicut (Richardson), Wilson's Meadow-Mouse. Hud- 

 son'! Bay. 



69. A. xttntMoffnathui (Leach), the Yellow-Cheeked Vole. North 

 America. 



70. A. arralu, the CampagnoL Great Britain and Belgium. 



71. A. tuUerraneia (Selys de Longchamp), the Subterranean Volt*. 

 Belgium. 



72. A. glartolta, the Bank Campagnol. Great Britain. 



73. A. Roylei (Gray), the Indian Vole. India. 



74. A. (1) AydropfclM (Hodgson), the Nepaul Vole. Nepaul. 

 <5. A. (F), the Runian Vole. Russian Soongoro. 



76. A. noteboractttii (Kicbardnn), the Sharp-Nosed Meadow-Moose. 

 Korth America. 



77. A. borcalit (Richardson), the Awinnak, or Northern Meadow- 

 Mouse. North America. 



78. Mfoda helrtltu, the Tawny Lemming. Alpine swamp ). 

 <9. if. InmiKnnattu, Back's Lemming. North America. 



80. if. Lrmmtu, the Lemming. Norway. 



81. M. Hudnnitu (E. Sabiue), the Hudson's Bay Lemming. North 

 America. 



82. Lemmtu tirecnlandiem, the Owinyak, or Greenland Lrmining. 

 Hudson's Bay. 



c. Saccomyna. 



S3. Dipodumyi PhiUiplii (Gray), the Pouched Jerboa Mouse. 

 Mexico. 



84. Ifctcromyi anomalui (Gray), the Spiny Pouched Rat. Trinidad. 



d. Cattorina. 



85. Catlor Fiber (Linntcus), the Beaver. North America. 



86. Myojxttamnt Coypia (T. Geofiroy), the Coypu, or Racoonda. 

 Central America and Chili. 



87. Fiber zibtthictu (Desmoulins), the Ondatra. North America. 



88. Ifydromyt chrytoyaiter (Geofiroy), the Hydromys. Van Die- 

 men's Land. 



e. BcKimyna. 



89. Oclodon Degm, the Cucurrito, or the Degus. Chili 



90. Auiacodtu Smindenantu (Temminck), the Ground Pig. South 

 Africa. 



91. Echimyi myoturoi (T. Geoffroy), the Red-Tailed Echimys. 

 Tropical America. 



92. Petromyt typiciu (A, Smith), the Rock-Mouse. South Africa. 



Fostil Murida. Arvicola (Lacdp., Lemmui, Link.). 1, Campagnol 

 des Schistes de Bohome (Cuv.); Bohemia, 2, Campagnol des Cavernes 

 (Cur.) ; bone-caves, Kirkdale. (Buckland, ' Reliq. Diluv.') 3, Petit 

 Campagnol des Cavernes (Cuv.); bone-caves, Kirkdale. (Buckland, 

 ' Reliq. Diluv.'), where it would seem that there may be other species. 

 Arricola; also occur in the bone breccias of Cette, Nice, Corsica, and 

 Sardinia ; in the tertiary of Puy-de-Dome ; and in the bone-caves of 

 Gailenreuth, Sundwick, c. 



Dr. Buckland notices the extreme abundance of the teeth of Water- 

 Rats in the Kirkdale Cave. The same author remarks that the 

 teeth and bones of Water-Rats had been found by Cuvier to occur 

 abundantly in many of the osseous breccias from the shores of the 

 Mediterranean and Adriatic, and that the Baron had also in his collec- 

 tion a large moss from Sardinia, composed exclusively of the bones 

 and teeth of these animals, nearly as white as ivory, and slightly 

 adhering together by delicate stalagmite. (' Reliquim Diluviansc. ) 



Myoxut. 1, Loir des Platri6res (Cuv.), Gypsum of Montmartre. 

 2, Second Loir des Platricrea (Cuv.), Gypsum of Montmartre. 3, 

 Myoxut primiycnint (Meyer, Arctomyi itrimigenia, Kaup). Another 

 Myojctu is recorded from the (Eningen beds. Dr. Buckland, in his 

 ' List of Vertebral Animals found in the Gypsum of the Paris Basin,' 

 records two small species of Dormouse, those above noticed in all 



probability, as extinct species. 

 Hut. 1, " 



. if. ifiucului fottilit (Karg), (Euingen beds. Remains of 

 Mice have also been found in the bone-oaves and Osseous Breccia*. 

 Thus Dr. Buckland describes and figures (' Reliq. Diluv.,' p. 15, pL 11) 

 the jaw and teeth of a mouse from the Kirkdale Cave. In the Eocene 

 formation (lacustrine) of Cournon, in Auvergne, a Rat is recorded as 

 one of the animals found with the fossil eggs of aquatic birds. 



Diptiu (GerbiUut, Desm. ; Merionei, 111.). Remains of this form are 

 recorded in the Tertiary beds. Bean iron-ore of the Rauh Alp. (Jtogcr). 

 Russia. .(Fischer.) 



Clenomyi. Mr. Darwin found at Bahia Blanco, in a cliff of red 

 earth, part of the head of a Ctenomyt ; the species being different from 

 the Tucutuoo, but with a close general resemblance. 



Spermophilu*. S.tuperciliotiu(K&up). Tertiary: Eppelsheim Sand. 



MUa [MuniD<] 



MUSA, a genus of Endogenous PlanU, the typo of the natural 

 order Mtaacae. The tpecies consist of herbaceous plants, having a 

 ;igantic simple stem, thickly clothed with the sheathing petioles of 

 >ong, broad, horizontal leaves, which form a tuft, like that of somo 

 palm, on the apex of the stem. These leaves are of a firm but thin 

 texture, and are undivided ; but having simple veins running directly 

 from the margin towards the midrib, and presenting a broad surface 

 to the wind, they are always torn into broad strap-like divisions, 

 which give them a compound appearance. From the midst of these 

 leaves proceeds the inflorescence, consisting of a compound spike of 

 great sue, each of whose divisions is inclosed in a huge bract or spatlu-, 

 loaded with male flowers at its bane, but bearing females or hermaphro- 

 dites at the upper end. The perianth consists of 6 superior diviaious, 

 five of which are grown together into a tube, slit at the bock, while 

 the sixth is small and concave. There are 6 stamens, one or more of 

 which are imperfect The ovary is inferior, 3-celled, with a double 

 row of numerous ovules in each cell ; the style is short ; the stigma 

 Is funnel-shaped, and obscurely 6-lobed. The fruit is an oblong 

 fleshy body, obscurely 3-5 cornered, containing numerous seeds buried 

 in pulp. The latter are roundish, the size of a pea, flattened, with a 

 hixnl brittle shell, which is indented at the hilum. 



Tli in gcntiH is one of the most important of those found in tropical 

 countries, to which the species arc confined in a wild state. Tin- M. 

 Sapicnium, or Plantain, of which the Banana, or M. paraduiaca, 'u a 

 slight variety, has a fruit used to a prodigious extent by the inhabit- 



