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 
1. Harvest Mouse. Reithrodontomys lecontit (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. 
3. Dickinson’s Harvést Mouse. R. lecontit dickinsont (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. 
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, 
‘arge and prominent and perfectly black, in brilliant contrast 
+ surrounding fur. 
