SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Icon. Schreb. tab. 180. Buff. I. c. pi. 41. Encij. Method, 

 t. G8. f.B. 

 Inhabits all Europe. Brit. Mus. 



582. 9. M. Campestris (Field Mouse.) Ears short, 

 rounded; fur yellow-gray above, white beneath. 



Mus Campestris, Desm. Mam. Supp. 453. 



Petit Mulot, or Mulot des Champs, Buff. Hist. Nat. vii. 



Icon. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. 



Inhabits France. * 



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583. 10. M. Musculv^ (the Mouse.) Dusky-gray above, 

 ashy underneath ; tail about as long as the body, which is 

 nearly four inches long. 



Mus, Aristotle, Hist, of Animals, 1. c. 2. Mus Domes- 

 ticus Vulgaris, Ray, Synop. 218. Mus Musculus, Lin. Syst. 

 83. Mus Sorex, Brisson, Regno Anim. 169. 



Icon. Schreb. 181. Buff. Hist. Nat. rii. tab. 39. and 

 Sup. VIII. tab. 20. 



Inhabits all Europe, the Colonies of Europeans, and 

 most parts of the world. 



It varies, white, black, and black and gray and white, 

 mixed. 



584. 11. A/. Messorius (Harvest Mouse.) Mouse-gray, 

 mixed with yellowish above ; belly and feet white ; tail a 

 little shorter than the body, which is but little more than 

 two inches long. 



Mus Messorius, Shaw, Zool. vi. 62. 



Harvest Mouse, Pen. Quad. ii. 384. 



Icon. Shaw, Zool. ii. p. 1, frontispiece. 



Inhabits England, observed in Hampshire Mus, Brit 



Var. /3. Black-gray. 



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