CONTENTS OF PART XVII. 



RODENTIA (Rodents)— 

 Genus Apodenius — 



The Field Mouse . 

 The Hebridean Field Mouse 

 The St Kilda Field Mouse 

 The Fair Isle Field Mouse 

 The Yellow-necked Field Mouse 

 De Winton's Field Mouse 



Genus Micromys 



The English local names have been revised in fart by Mr W. W. Skeai, 

 M.A. {assisted by the late Professor W. W. Skeat), and in part by 

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Lond., late Scholar Emm. Coll. Camb. ; 

 the Celtic and Gaelic names by Dr E. S. Quiggin, M.A., Ph.D., 

 Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Languages and Celtic of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge; while a list of Scottish Gaelic 

 names has been supplied by Mr C. H. Alston. Much information 

 has been taken from Mr G. S. Millet's recently published 

 " Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe^' th^ use of the 

 MS. and proofs of which before publication was kindly permitted 

 by the Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History. 



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531 

 S40 

 542 



545 

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552 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page {Black and White). 



The Field Mouse {Apodemus sylvaticus). (i) Left Ear; (2 and 2d) Left 

 Hand ; (3 and 3«) Left Foot. (Three times life size.) 



The Harvest Mouse {Micromys minutus). (i) Left Ear; (2) Left 

 Hand ; (3) Left Foot ; (4) Tail. (Three times life size.) 



Figures in Text. 



Spoor of Field Mouse in Snow. 

 Section of Burrow of Field Mouse (diagrammatic). 

 Plan of the Burrow of a Field Mouse shown in section in Fig. 86. 

 Dissection of Uterus of De Winton's Field Mouse, showing 

 Superfoetation. 



