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mies with facility : their. food consists of fruits and of grass, 
and they are said to lay in a store of provisions for the win- 
ter. The prevailing colour: {most of the species) of the 
back, is a mixture of fulvous. ‘and black, the hairs being 
bluish-black below their points ; the hair of the belly gene- 
rally bluish-black, paler than that of the back, and tufted 
with silvery white: tail dark coloured above, and pale be- 
neath. An indigenous species (4. agrestis) has lately 
increased so much in the Royal Forest in Hampshire, as 
to threaten destruction to the young oaks, which they 
gnaw through a little beneath the surface of the ground. 
TAB, XXVI. 
ARVICOLA XANTHOGNATHA. 
A. fulvo nigroque varia, ventre argenteo-cinereo; malis 
fulvis ; cauda alba supra nigra; pedibus fuseescenti- 
bus subtus albidis. 
Habitat ad Hudson’s Bay. 
FULVOUS-CHEEKED CAMPAGNOL. 
Back variegated with fulvous and black ; belly silvery 
ash-colour ; cheeks fulvous; tail white, black above; feet 
brown, whitish beneath. 
This species was received from Hudson’s Bay by Mr. 
Bullock, who kindly lent it to me for description. It is 
represented rather less than half of the natural size. 
