78 MAMMALIA. 



k. Skin F. StoHcrka. 



/-»8, 2 Alc.,i skull Yarkand, 11-73 F. Stoliczka. 



[Types of Mus pachycercus, Blanford.] 



«. Ale. $ Eastern Turkestan J. Scully. 



? 0. Skin, skull Resht, Caspian W. T. Blanford. 



Mus musculus. 



Mus musculus, Linnceus Sysi. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 83 (tj6S) ; Blasius 

 Saugeth. Deutschl., p. 320; Blyth Cat. no. 378, p. 118. 



Distribution. — Cosmopolitan, if as Thomas (Encycl. Brit., xvii, 

 p. 5) believes to be the case, Mus urbanus is indistinguishable from 

 this species ; the original home of Mus musculus was probably in 

 India. 



a. Stuffed England Mr. Kirtland (1845), A. S, B. 



b. Stuffed N. Carolina, U. S. A. Rev. F. Fitzgerald (1852), 



A. S B. 

 c-d. 2 Ale, I skull London A. D. Bartlett. 



S 

 e-f. 2 Ale, I skull „ A. D. Bartlett. 



Mus sylvaticus. 



Mus sylvaticus, Linneeus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. '84 (1766); Blasius 

 Saugeth Deutschl., p. 322 ; Blyth. Cat. no. 373, p. 1 16. 



Distribution. — The whole of Europe, eastwards it is replaced by 



Mus arianus. 



a-d. 4 Ale, i skull London A. D. Bartlett. 



$ 

 e-f. 2 Ale, I skull „ A. D. Bartlett. 



$ 

 g. Stuffed Switzerland A. Malherbe (1842), A. S. B. 



h-j. 2 Stuffed England A. D. Bartlett, A. S. B. 



Mus minutus. 



Mus minutus, Pallas Nov. Spec. Quad, e Glir., p. 345 (1778) ; Blasius 



Saugeth. Deutschl p. 326; Blyth Cat. no. 375, p. 117. 

 Mus messorius, Shaw Genl., ZooL, ii, pt. i, p. 62 (l8oi). 

 Mus soricinus, pendulinus et parvulus Hermann Obs. Zool., i, pp. 57, 



61, 62 (1804). 

 Mus pratensis, Ocksay Ncroa Acta Acad. Zeop. Caro., xv, pt. 2, p. 243, pi. 



Ixviii (1831). 



Distribution.— The Palaeartic region, 

 a. Ale. ^England H. E. Strickland (1844), A.S.B. 



Mus abyssinicus. 



Mus abyssinicus, Rufpell Mus. Send, iii, p. 104, pi. vii fig. i (1845) ; Blan' 

 ford Abyssinia, p. 283. 



