68 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



The Campagnol, or Small Field-Rat (Mus Arvalis, Lin.), 

 Buff. VII. XL VII. 



As large as a Mouse, of an ashen-red ; the tail 

 somewhat less than the body. It lives in holes 

 which it digs in the fields, and where it heaps 

 up grain for the winter. These animals some- 

 times multiply excessively, and occasion great 

 mischief. 



The Meadow Campagnol (Mus (Economus, Pall.), Glires, 

 XIV. A, Schreb. Cuv. 



A little deeper colour, and tail a little shorter. 

 It inhabits a little chamber formed like an oven, 

 dug under the turf, from whence many narrow 

 and branching canals conduct it in various 

 directions ; other canals communicate with a 

 second cavity, where it amasses provision. It 

 inhabits the whole of Siberia. It is also believed 

 to have been found in Switzerland and the South 

 of France f. 

 The third sub-division will be that of 



The Lemmings, Cuv. (Georychus, Illig.%) 



Which have the tail and ears very short, and the 

 fore-toes peculiarly adapted for digging. 



The two first species have five claws very distinct 



t Here might properly come the M. Saxatilis, Alliarius, Rutilus, 

 Gregalis, and Socialis. (Pall. Glir.) But the M. Lagurus and 

 Torquatus are rather Lemmings. 



| Tswqu%os, digging the earth. 



