White-footed Mouse 



rows and old fields partly grown up with deciduous trees where the 

 ground is covered with bunches of brown grass. Its nest is placed 

 on the surface of the ground among the tall grass. 



Varieties of the Harvest Mouse 



/. Harvest Mouse. Reithrodontomys lecontii (Aud. and Bach.) 



Description and range as above. 

 2. Surber's Harvest Mouse. R. lecontii impiger Bangs. Slightly 



smaller and richer in colour. 

 Range. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and doubtless in 



Virginia. 

 $. Dickinson's Harvest Mouse. R. lecontii dickinsoni (Rhoads), 



Darker and more sooty in colour. 

 Range. Southern Florida. 



White-footed Mouse 



Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque) 

 Also called Deer Mouse, Wood Mouse. 



Length. 6.80 inches. 



Description. Brownish fawn colour above, brightest on the sides 

 and darkest on the back where there is a considerable sprinkling 

 of black hairs. Below white, fur plumbeous at its base, tail 

 dusky above, light beneath, feet white. Young plumbeous gray 

 over the whole upper surface with no brownish or fawn tints, 

 white below. (Illustrations facing pp. 120, 133 and 140.) 



Range. Eastern United States south of the evergreen forests and 

 north of the Gulf States. Represented farther north, south and 

 west by numerous related species and varieties. (See below.) 



The white-footed mouse is the most beautiful of all our mice, 

 particularly in the winter, when its fur is thick and long and bright 

 golden-fawn-colour and white in almost equal parts; the white fur, 

 which is literally whiter than ermine, covers the entire under sur- 

 face and reaches well up on the flanks and shoulders, the line of 

 separation being clear-cut and as straight as is possible from the 

 tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. 



The white-footed mouse has eyes like those of a flying squirrel, 

 very large and prominent and perfectly black, in brilliant contrast 

 to the surrounding fur. 



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