204 MUR1NJE. 



Blyth says that this differs conspicuously from the common English 

 mouse in its smaller ears and much longer tail. It has also larger eyes 

 and smaller feet. The fur, too, is of very different texture. 



This mouse is found throughout India in houses in the plains, and also 

 in Ceylon; and its habits do not differ from those of its English congener. 

 M. dubius, Hodgson, is considered the young of this one. 



187. Mus homourus. 



HODGSON. BLYTH, Cat. p. 118. Olim, M. nipalensis, HODGSON. 

 THE HILL-MOUSE. 



Descr. Dark rufescent-brown above, rufescent- white below; hands 

 and feet fleshy-white ; tail equal in length to head and body ; "fur more 

 gerbille-like in character than in 'M. musculus, the piles less dense and 

 sinuous." 



Length of one, head and body 3^ inches; tail 3^; head l T Vj ears 

 T ? G ths. Hodgson states that the female has only eight teats, whilst other 

 mice have ten. 



This is the common house-mouse of the Himalayan hill stations, from 

 the Punjab to Darjeeling. 



I obtained a specimen of what I considered the English house-mouse 

 at Tellicherry, on the Malabar coast, where it may have been introduced 

 from the shipping ; but I shall not give it a place here. 



188. Mus crassipes. 

 BLYTH, J. A. S. XXVIII. 295. 



THE LARGE-FOOTED MOUSE. 



Descr. Like M. homourus, but with the tail rather longer than the 

 head and body ; the feet particularly large, and, like the tail, well fur- 

 nished with coarse short setae. 



Length 2 j inches ; tail 3 J ; hind-feet fths. From Mussoorie. 



Some years ago I obtained one or two specimens of a mouse in a house 

 on the Neelgherries which certainly differed both from M. urbanus and 

 M. homourus. it was larger, with large head and ears, and very large feet, 



