CONTENTS OF PART XVIII. 



RODENTIA (Rodents)— 

 Genus Microniys — 



The Harvest Mouse . . . . -554 



Genus Epimys — 



I. The Black or Ship Rat .... 578 



(I.) The Black Rat . . . . . 596 



(2.) The Alexandrine Rat .... 599 



The English local names have been revised in part by Mr W. W. Skeat, 

 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. Miller's recently published 

 " Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe" the use of the 

 MS. and proofs of which before publication was kindly permitted 

 by the Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Full-page (^Coloured and Black and White). 



British Muridce (Skins). Coloured. 

 Harvest Mouse. 



The Black or Ship Rat. (i) Left Ear; (2) Left Hand; (3) Left Foot. 

 (Twice life size.) 



Figures in Text. 



Skulls of ApodeiiLits and Microniys. 



Skull and Mandible oi Epimys rattiis (life size). 



