I20 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
MUS MUSCULUS Zinn. 
House Mouse. 
Small; brown above; pale brown beneath; length, including 
tail, about 5 to 6; tail, 2.50 to 3. 
Abundant throughout the State in the vicinity of human hab- 
itation. 
REITHRODONTOMYS HUSILIS Aud. and Bach. 
Harvest Mouse. 
A small, dark brown mouse; length, including tail, about.5 to 
5.75; tail, 2.25 to 2.60. 
This species is apparently not common. It has been taken at 
Enterprise and Tarpon Springs. 
SITOMYS NIVEIVENTRIS (Chapman). 
Ground Mouse. 
Above, pale brownish drab; whitish beneath; others, yellowish 
brown above; whitish beneath; length, including tail, about 5.30; 
tail, 1.75 to 2. 
Common in many parts of Florida; abundant near the coast. 
SITOTYS NIVEIVENTRIS SUBGRISEUS Chapman. 
Old Field Mouse. 
Darker than xvezventr?es ; brown above, under parts white; 
length, including tail, about 5.20; tail, 1.60 to 1.90. 
According to Mr. Chapman, it inhabits the interior, being re- 
placed in the sandy lands, bordering the ocean, by the preceding 
species. It frequents old fields. 
SITOMYS FLORIDANUS (Chapman). 
Big-Eared Deer Mouse. 
flesperomys floridanus Chapman. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
II., 1887, p. 87. 
flesperomys macropus Merriam. N. A. Fauna, No. 4, 1890, 
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