MEADOW AND HARE-TAILED RAT. 
Tail not three quarters of an inch long, terminating with long 
fuiff hairs; it is fcarcely vifible, being almoft loft in the fur. 
Defcribed from a fkin which Doétor Pallas favored me with, which 
he received from the Labrador coatt. 
This is nearly a-kin to the Lemmus. 
Short-tailed Field Moufe? Br. Zool. i. N° 31.—Hif?. Quad, N° 322 ?—Smellie, 
iv. 293.—Lev. Mus. 
AT. With a blunt nofe: great head: prominent eyes: ears 
buried in the fur: head and upper part of the body of a ferru- 
ginous brown mixed with black: belly of a deep afh-color. 
Length, from head to tail, fix inches; tail only one and a half, with 
a {mail tuft at the end. 
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay and Newfoundland, in the laft very nume- 
rous, and does vaft damage in the gardens; refides under ground. 
Hift, Quad, N° 320. 
AT. With {mall and rounded ears: head broad; color dufky 
and tawny brown: the belly of a dirty white: a -dufky lin® 
paffes from between the eyes, and extends obfcurely along the 
back. Larger than the common Moufe. Defcribed from fo muti- 
lated a fpecimen, fent to the Royal Society from Hud/on’s Bay *, that 
it was impoffible to determine the fpecies; only, by the dark line 
along the back, it feemed likeft the Hare-tTaiLep, an inhabitant 
of Sidiria, whofe manners are defcribed in the Hiftory of Qua- 
drupeds. 
* Ph, Tr. \xii. 379. Sps 15; 
conomic, 
¥33 
65. Mzavow ? 
66.HARE-TAILEDe 
