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LEMMUS RAT, 
B. Rev, Hi. Quad. N° 314: 
AT. With briftly nofe and face: ears oval, rifing above the 
hair, naked, only tipt with fur: color, from forehead to rump, 
a bright red : fides light grey and yellow : Seal whitith : tail dufky 
above, light below. 
Length not four inches; tail more than one. 
Grow very common beyond the O2, and live fcattered over all 
Sidiria, in woods and mountains, and about villages; extend even 
to the Arctic circle. It is the Z/chetanauft/chu, or Red Moufe of the 
Kamt/chatkans. \t is afort of drone: makes no provifion for itfelf, but 
robs the hoards of the laft fpecies *. Lives under logs of trees ; fre- 
quents houfes; dares the fevereft weather, and is abroad amidft the 
fnows; feeds on any thing, and is often caught in the traps fet for 
Ermines, in attempting to devour the bait. 
. Lemmus, Hift. Quad. N° 317.—Godde Saeppan, Leems, 224. 
Res With fmall eyes and mouth: upper lip divided: ears fmall, 
placed far backwards: four flender toes on the fore feet, and a 
fharp claw, like a cock’s fpur, in place of a thumb: {kin very thin. 
Color of the head black and tawny, of the belly yellow. 
Length of thofe of Scandinavian Lapland, above five inches; thofe 
of the Rufian dominions not four. 
The manners and wonderful migrations of the Lemmi of Europe, 
have been fully treated of in my Hiftory of Quadrupeds. 
They abound in the countries from the White Sea to the gulph of 
the Ody, and in the northern end of the Urallian chain; but differ 
in fize and color from thofe of Europe. Like them, they migrate at 
certain periods; and tend from the Ura/l/ian mountains, fometimes 
towards Fene/ei, fometimes towards Petzorah, and at thofe times re- 
* Defer. Kamtfchatka, 392. Wi 
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