MOUSE, AND FIELD RAT. 
Length of the head and body feven inches; tail five, covered with 
fhort black hairs. Weight nine ounces. 
Inhabits North America, from Canada to Carolina*. In the firft, 
varies to tawny and to white +: feeds on the fry of fifh, infects, fhell- 
fifh, frogs, and roots; burrows on the banks of ponds and rivers ; 
and dives and fwims as well as an Otter, notwithftanding it is not 
' web-footed. 
In northern Earope and Afa itis extremely common ; from Peter/- 
burgh to Kamt/chatka in Sibiria, they are twice as large as in other 
places. They are found alfo from Lapland to the Ca/pian fea, and 
alfo in Perfia; and are one of the animals which endure the cold of 
the Arétic circle. 
Br. Zool.i. N° 30.—Hift. Quad, N° 301.—Smellie, iv. 282.—Lev. Mus. 
; HIS common animal needs no defcription. It is very abun- 
dant in the inhabited parts of America, and is to be found 
from Peterfburgh perhaps as far as Kamt/chatka. 
Kalm imagines them to be natives of America; for he affures us 
that he has killed them in the crevices of the rocks in defert places, 
far from the haunt of man |. 
Hit. Quad. N° 302, « AmeERIcAN.—Swmellie, iv. 285.—Lev. Mus. 
AT. With great, naked, and open ears: cheeks, {pace below the 
ears, and fides quite to the tail, orange-colored: back dufky 
and ruft-colored, marked along the top, from head to tail, with a 
dark line: throat, breaft, and belly, of a pure white: tail dufky 
above, white beneath: feet white: hind legs longer than thofe of 
the Englifh kind. 
Length about four inches and a half; of the tail, four inches. 
Inhabits Hud/on’s Bay and New York. 
* Law/fon Carolina, 122. + De Buffon, xiv. 401. t Kaln, ii. 46. 
}) The fame, 47. 
S 2 Hip, 
1.2% 
60. Mouse. 
61. Frexp. 
