554 MURID^— MICROMYS 



THE HARVEST MOUSE. 



MICROMYS MINUTUS, Pallas. 

 MICROMYS MINUTUS SORICINUS, Hermann. 



1771. MUS MINUTUS, P. S. Pallas, Reise, i, App., 454, described from the banks 

 of the Volga, Russia ; also Nov. Spec. Glires, 1778, 96, 345, pi. xxiv. B., etc. ; as 

 regards the typical form, of all subsequent writers. 



1780. Mus SORICINUS, Hermann in Schreber, Saugethiere, iv., 661, pi. clxxxiii. B. ; 

 described from Strassburg, Germany ; Gmelin. 



1785. (Mus) TRITICEUS, Boddaert, Elenchus Anim., i., in ; described from Hamp- 

 shire, England. 



1788. Mus SILVATICUS, var. B., J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 129; based on the 

 "Harvest-Rat," Pennant, Quad., ed. i., 302, n. 231. 



1789. Mus MINIMUS, Gilbert White, Nat. Hist. Selbome, 43, 33, 34, 39; described 

 from Selbome, Hampshire ; Mus minutus minimus, Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1900, 530 ; {Apodemus), Trouessart. 



1792. Mus MESSORIUS, Kerr, An. Kingdom, 230; described from Hampshire; 



Shaw; Montagu; Pennant, Brit. ZooL, i., 121; Bingley ; Turton ; Fleming; 



Jenyns ; Bell, ed. i. ; Macgillivray ; White, i., 58. 

 1794. Mus AVENARIUS, Wolf, Versuche die Feldmaeusse zu vertilgen, 16, 315 ; not 



seen, cited by Hermann, Obs. ZooL, 1804, 61. 

 1804. Mus PENDULINUS and Mus PARVULUS, Hermann, Obs. ZooL, 61 ; described 



from Strassburg, Germany. 

 1816. ?MUS ARVENSIS, Leach, Syst. Cat. Spec. Indig. Mamm. and Birds, Brit. 



Mus., 7 ; a nomen nudum for " Harvest Rat " from Devonshire. 



1822. Mus CAMPESTRIS, A. G. Dcsmarest, MammaL, ii. 543 ; described from 

 France; Mus minutus campestris, Barrett- Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat Hist., 

 June 1900, 529 ; described from Waremme, Liege, Belgium ; (Apodemus) 

 Trouessart. 



1823. Mus MINUTUS, F. Boie, Jsis, 970; described as very frequent in Schleswig 

 and Holstein ; Mus messorius stated to be probably a synonym of M. minutus, 

 Pallas ; A. Brants (1827) ; Oken, A/ig. Nat., vii. ab., 2, 718. 



1832. Mus MERIDIONALIS, Costa, Fauna Reg. Nap., 13; described from near 



Naples, Italy ; {Apodemus) Trouessart. 

 1841. MiCROMYS AGILIS, J. F. A. Dehne, " Micromys agilis, kleimnaus, ein neues 



Saugthier der Fauna von Dresden," i ; described from Dresden, Germany ; Mus 



minutus agilis, Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, June 1900, 529, 



from Brunswick, Germany ; {^Apodemus) Trouessart. 



1841. Mus ORYZIVORUS, E. de Selys-Longchamps, Atti d. seconda Riunione d. Set. 

 Italiani, Torino, 1840, 247 ; described from ricefields in Lombardy. 



1842. Mus PUMILUS, F. Cuvier, Hist Nat. de Mamm., TabL Gen. et Meth., 4 ; 

 described without name (in fasc. xxxii., October 1821) from vicinity of Paris, 

 France. 



1912. MiCROMVS MINUTUS SORICINUS, G. S. Miller, Catalogue, 844. 



The synonymy of the Harvest Mouse of western Europe, although 

 long, is simple. In spite of the excellent description of Mus minutus 



