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COMMON MOUSE. 



Class I- 



They are more slender than the other long-tailed 

 Field Mouse ; their eyes less prominent ; their 

 ears naked, and standing out of the fur ; their 

 tail slightly covered with hair ; their back of a 

 fuller red than the larger species ; inclining to 

 the color of a Dormouse : the belly white ; a 

 strait line along the sides dividing the colors of 

 the back and belly. 



30. Mouse. Mus domesticus .vulgaris seu 



Common. minor. Raii syn. guad. 218. 



Seh. Museum, i. Tab. 1 1 1. f. 6. 



its skeleton. Tal. 31. 

 Gesner quad. 714. 

 Mus Cauda longissima, obscure 



cinereus, ventre subalbes- 



cente. Brissonquad. IIQ. 

 De Btiffon, Tom. vii. 30g. 



Tab. 39. 



Brii. Llygoden 



Fren. La Souris 



Jtal. Topo, sorice 



Span. Raton 



Fori. Ralinho 



Mus musculus. M. Cauda 

 elongata, subnuda, palmis 

 tetradactylis, plantis penta-^ 

 dactylis, pollice mutico. 

 Gm. Lin. 128. 



Taun. Suec. 34. 



Mus minor, Musculus vul- 

 garis. Klein quad. 57- 



Br. Zool. 50. Ilist. quad. ii. 

 No. 382. p. 184. Arct. 

 Zool. u \b2. 



Germ . Mavis 



Dut. Muys 



Swed. Mus 



Dan. Muus. 



A HIS timid, cautious, active, little animal, is 

 too w^ell known to require a description ; it is 

 entirely domestic, being never found in fields, 

 or, as M. Buffon observes, in any countries un- 

 inhabited by mankind. It breeds very frequently 



