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Micromys minutus soiuciNUS Hermann. 



1780. Mus soricimis Hermann in Schreber, Saugethiere, iv, p. 661, 



pi. clxxxiii B. (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1785. [Mus] triticeus Boddaert, Elenchus Anim., i, p. Ill (Hampshire, 



England). 

 1789. Mus minimus White, Nat. Hist, and Antiqu. of Selborne, p. 43 ; 



described, pp. 33, 34 and 39 (Selborne, Hampshire, England). 

 1792. Mus messorius Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 230 (Hampshire, England). 

 1794. "Mils avenarius Wolf, Versuche die Feldmause zu -vertilgen, p. 16, 



315," Hermann, Observ. Zool.,' p. 61, 1804 (Locality not men- 

 tioned). 

 1804. Mus pendulinus Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61 (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1804. Musparvulus Hermann, Observ. Zool., p. 61 (Strassburg, Germany). 

 1816. ? Mus arvcnsis Leach, Syst. Catal. Spec. Indig. Mamm. and Birds, 



Brit. Mus., p. 7 (Nomen nudum : "Harvest Eat "). 

 1822. Mus campestris Desmarest, Mammalogie, pt. 2, p. 543 (Prance). 

 1832. M\us\ meridionalis Costa, Fauna del Regno di Napoli, p. 13 (Vicinity 



of Naples, Italy). 



1840. Mus minatus Schinz, Europ. Fauna, I, p. 70. 



1841. Micromys agilis Dehne, Micromys agilis, ein neues Saugthier der 



Fauna von Dresden, p. 1 (Dresden, Germany). 



1841. Mus oryzivorus de Selys-Longchamps, Atti della seconda Riunione 



degli Scienziati Italiani, Torino, 1840, p. 247 (Rice fields of 

 Lombardy, Italy). 



1842. Mus pumilus F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif., Tabl. gen. et 



Meth., p. 4. Described in fasc. xxxn, October, 1821 (Vicinity of 



Paris, France). 

 1857. Mus minutus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 326. 

 1900. Mus minutus agilis Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., v, p. 529, June, 1900 (Brunswick, Germany). 

 1900. Mux minutus campestris Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist., 7th ser., v, p. 529, June, 1900 (Waremme, Liege, Belgium). 

 1900. Mus minutus minimus Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., v, p. 530, June, 1900 (England). 

 1910. Mus (Apodemus) minutus agilis, M. (A.) minutus campestris, M. (A.) 



minutus miniums and M. (A.) meridionalis Trouessart, Faune 



Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 156, 157. 



Type locality. — Strassburg, Germany. 



Geographical distribution. — Central Europe from Great Britain 

 to eastern Germany, and from Scotland (Aberdeenshire) and 

 Denmark south to Italy and southern Prance. 



Diagnosis. — Colour of upper parts essentially uniform through- 

 out, the shoulders, neck and head never conspicuously greyish. 



Colour. — Winter pelage (England and Switzerland) : upper 

 parts a nearly uniform reddish brown approaching the tawny of 

 Ridgway but more vivid, especially along median region ; neck 

 and head sometimes not so bright as back, but never sufficiently 

 so to produce any marked contrast ; sides of body and outer 

 surface of legs fading toward ochraceous-buff; back very 

 inconspicuously sprinkled with black-tipped hairs ; ear concolor 



