CONTENTS OF PART XIX. 



RODENTIA (Rodents)— 



Genus Epitnys — 



1. The Black or Ship Rat — 



(3.) The Tree or Roof Rat . . .601 



2. The Brown or Common Rat .... 605 

 Genus Mus . . . . . . .631 



The House Mouse ..... 634 



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

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

 Mr C. M. Drennan, M.A. Land., 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 



f'ULL-PAGE {Black and White). 



The Common Rat — Epimys novegicus. (i) Left Ear; (2) Left Hand; 

 (3) Left Foot. 



Heads of British Muridce. (i) Bank Mouse; (2) Water Rat; (3) 

 Black Rat ; (4) Common Rat. 



Figures in Text. 



Skull and Mandible of Epimys norvegicus. 

 Spoor of Rat. 



Skulls of Mus musculus and Mus muralis. 

 Hairs from back of House Mouse. 



