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ENGLISH DORMOUSE. 
they kill them. The fkins are fold to the Chinefe merchants. About 
the Lena, a thoufand of their fkins are not valued at more than fix 
or eight rubles *. 
Thefe animals are found in great numbers in 4a, beginning about 
the river Kama +, and from thence growing more and more frequent 
in the wooded parts of Sidiria; but thefe, and all the fpecies of 
Squirrel, ceafe towards the north-eaft extremity of the country, by 
reafon of the interruption of woods, which cuts them off from Kamt- 
Schatka. 
Dormoufe, Br. Zool. i. N° 234.—Hif. Quad. N° 289.—Smellie, iv. 334.—Lev. Mus. 
Mr. Law/on fays that the Englifh Dormoufe is found in Carolina; 
but it has not as yet been tran{mitted to Great Britain. In order to 
afcertain the fpecies, I add a brief defcription. 
ORMOUSE. With full black eyes: broad, thin, femi-tranf- 
parent ears: throat white: reft of the body and the tail of a 
tawny red. Size of the common Moufe ; but the body of a plumper 
form, and the nofe more blunt: tail two inches and a half long, 
covered on every fide with hair. 
In Europe, inhabits thickets ; forms its neft at the bottom of a tree 
or fhrub ; forms magazines of nuts for winter food ; fits up to eat, 
like the Squirrel; lies torpid moft of the winter; in its retreat, 
rolled up into the fhape of a ball; retires to its neft at approach of 
cold weather. 
* Pallas, Nov. Sp. an. 380. 
+ A river falling into the Wolga about forty miles below Ca/an. 
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