6so 



MURID^— MUS 



1^ From Bishop's Stortford. 

 6 With 5 embryoa. 

 fl With 7 embryoa. 



2 With 7 large embryoa. 

 6 With S embryos. 

 10 With 8 embryos. 



3 Suckling ; no embryos. 

 7 With 6 embryos. 



4 With 8 embryoa. 

 8 With 7 embryos. 



FERAL SPECIMENS FROM NEAR INVERGORDON, BAST ROSS-SHIRE, CAUGHT AND 

 MEASURED BY BWEN KENNEDY. 



Remarks : — The largest specimen measured by Adams was a male 

 taken at -Clifton, Derbyshire, in January 1895 ; this had the head and 

 body 95, and the tail 87 mm. long; its weight was 23 grammes. Adams 

 found the average length of the head and body to be 78-6 in thirty- 

 four males ; 78- 1 in twenty-eight females ; and nearly 78-4 in the total 

 of sixty-two of both sexes. 



Skvill: — In adults; condylo-basal length, 19-7 to 22; zygomatic 

 breadth, io-6 to 12-4; interorbital constriction, 3-5 to 4; breadth of 

 brain-case, 9-8 to 10-4; median depth of brain-case, 6 to 7; length of 

 nasal, 7-4 to 8-8; of diastema, 5 to 6-2; of mandible, 11-4 to 13; of 

 maxillary tooth-row (alveolar), 3-4 to 3-6; of mandibular tooth- 

 row, 3 to 3-2. 



