204 MTTBINiE. 



Blyth Bays that this differs conspicuously from the common English 

 mouse in its smaller ears, and much longer tail. It has also larger eyes, 

 and smaller feet. The fur too is of very different texture. 



This mouse is found throughout India in houses in the plains, and also 

 . in Ceylon ; and its habits do not differ from those of its English congener. 

 M. duhius, Hodgson, is considered the young of this one. 



187. Mus homourus. 



Hodgson. — Blyth, Cat. p. 118. — Olim, M. nipalensis, Hodgson. 

 The Hill-mouse. 



Descr. — Dark rufescent brown above, rufescent white below ; hands and 

 feet fleshy white ; tail equal in length to head and body ; "fur more 

 gerbille-like in character than in M. musculus, the piles less dense and 

 sinuous.'' 



Length of one, head and body 3-| inches ; tail 3-^, head 1^ ; ears ^ths. 

 Hodgson states that the female has only eight teats, whilst other mice 

 have ten. 



This is the common house-mouse of the Himalayan hill stations, from 

 the Punjab to Darjeeling. 



I obtained a specimen of what I considered the English house-mouse at 

 Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, where it may have been introduced 

 from the shipping, but I shall not give it a place here. 



188. Mus crassipes. 



Blyth, J. A. S. XXVIII. 295. 



The Large-footed Mouse. 



Descr. — Like M. homourus, but with the tail rather longer than the 

 head and body, the feet particularly large, and like the tail well furnished 

 with coarse short setas. 



Length 2| inchqs ; tail 3| ; hind-feet fths. From Mussoorie. 



Some years ago I obtained one or two specunens of a mouse in a house 

 on the Neelgherries which certainly differed both from M. urbanus, and M. 

 homourus. It was larger, with large head and ears, and very large feet 



