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 LONG-TAILED MICE. 



House Mouse, Mus musculus Linnaeus. 



The common long-tailed, gray mouse of dwelling houses 

 and barns. Introduced into America many years ago from th3 

 Eastern Continent. A widely distributed and well-known pest. 



White-footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque). 



Also called Deer Mouse and Wood Mouse. An attractive 

 and common little mouse found in woody places throughout the 

 state, except in the Canadian zone. Feeds on nuts and seeds and 

 is also fond of insect and other animal food. 



Canadian White- footed Mouse, Peromyscus canadensis (Miller). 

 Found in the forests of our higher mountain regions. Col- 

 lected by A. B. Brooks in the mountains about Hanging Rock, 

 in Greenbrier, Nicholas and Webster Counties, in 1904. Col- 

 lected at Cheat Bridge, Pocahontas County, in 1906. 



Surber's Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys lecontii impiger 



Bangs. 



The smallest mouse found in West Virginia. The first 

 specimens known of this species were collected by Mr. Thaddeus 

 Surber at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 



The Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius Miller. 



A handsome little mouse with an extremely long tail, some- 

 times found in meadows and other cleared lands of West Vir- 

 ginia. I found a family of five or six, living in a shock of corn- 

 fodder in Upshur County several years ago. Edw. and Win. 

 Behrens report that this mouse was quite common in a meadow at 

 Sherrard, Marshall County, in the summer of 1907. This 

 species, like the following, hibernates in cold weather. 



Woodland Jumping Mouse, Zapus insignis Miller. 

 A beautiful and rare little mouse that is sometimes found 

 along the streams of deep woods in West Virginia. I have 

 seen but two live mice of this species. One was in the moun- 

 tains near Cleveland, Webster County, in the summer of 1894; 

 the other I shot on April 27th, 1906, at French Creek, W. Va. 



