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BARBARY MOUSE. 



Mus Barbarus. M. cauda mediocri, corporc fusco striis dccem 

 pallidis, palmis tridactylit, plantis pentadactylis. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. torn. i. p 2. Addend. 



Brown Mouse, marked with ten pale streaks ; with tail of mid- 

 dling length, tridactyle fore-feet, and pentadactyle hind-feet. 



THIS appears, from the description of Linnaeus, 

 to be so nearly allied to the M. striatits, as scarce 

 to be separated from it. It is, says Linnaeus, 

 smaller than a common mouse, and is brown 

 above, pale or whitish beneath : on each side the 

 back are ten pale stripes, and sometimes a scarce 

 perceptible line occurs between the lateral stripes. 

 The fore feet have three unguiculated toes, and 

 an obscure appearance of a fifth toe : the tail is 

 naked, obscurely annotated, and of the length of 

 the body. The animal is a native of Barbary. 



To the above division of long-tailed species 

 must be referred two which are figured and 

 slightly described by Seba. One of these is adopt- 

 ed by Mr. Pennant, in the last edition of his His- 

 tory of Quadrupeds, under the title of the Vir- 

 ginian Mouse. It is figured at pi. 47, fig. 4, of 

 the first vol. of Seba, and is called Mus agrestis 

 Americanus albus. Its size seems to be that of the 

 Wood Mouse ; its colour entirely white ; the eyes 

 very small ; the head large ; the snout short but 

 pointed, and the tail very thick at the base, and 

 gradually tapering at the point. 



