272 MEADOW VOLE. 



Mammifera," and the " A. rufcsccns of M. Selys- 

 Longchamps." The first specimen which Mr Yar- 

 rell obtained was from Birchanger, in Essex. Two 

 other examples were sent from the same locality ; 

 and specimens were subsequently received from 

 Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Berkshire. Mr 

 Jenyns has found it in Cambridgeshire, and Mr 

 Bell has received it from Hertfordshire. I have 

 examined specimens found by Mr Weir uic Bath- 

 gate, in the county of Linlithgow, but which were 

 mistaken for A. agrestis, until I pointed out the 

 differences between them and that species. It has 

 also been found by Mr Lizars near Kelso, and the 

 individual represented in the plate, from that loca- 

 lity, and erroneously named Short-Tailed Campag- 

 nol, appears to have been of the same species. 



The Meadow Vole is considerably less than the 

 Field Vole, which it, however, resembles in form. 

 It diifers from that species in having the tail pro- 

 portionally longer, the colour of the upper parts 

 bright-red in place of reddish-brown, and the lower 

 parts, including that of the tail, yellowish-white. 

 The incisors are of the same colour as those of the 

 more common species ; and the differences in the 

 feet are so slight as not to be easily described; but 

 the ears are a little more prominent. The fur is 

 soft, and rather long, of a bright chestnut-red above, 

 yellowish-grey on the sides, cream-coloured beneath ; 

 the feet and claws are yellowish-white, as is the 

 lower surface of the tail, of which the hairs are 

 somewhat longer than those of the other species. 





