234 MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Rats and Mice. 



482 16. Barbary Moufe. — 16. Mus barbarus. 20. 



The tail is of a middle length ; the body is brown, with ten whitifh (tripes j has three 

 toes before and five behind. Syft. nat. ed. xii. T. i. P. 2, add.. 



Barbary Moufe. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 305. 



Inhabits Barbary. — This fpecies is fmaller than the Common Moufe ; the under parts of the body 

 are whitifh ; the tail is naked, annulated, and as long as the body ; on the fore paws are the rudi- 

 ments of a thumb or inner toe,-<— Dr Gmelin fufgects. that this animal fhould be referred to the Cavy 

 genus. 



483 17. Mexican Moufe. — Musmexicanus. 



Has a large reddifli fpot on each fide of the belly. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 306. 

 Mus mexicanus maculatus, or Spotted Mexican Moufe. Seba, Muf. i. 74. t. xlv. f. 5. 



Inhabits Mexico. — Is of a whitifh colour, mixed, with red, and having a large reddifh fpot on each, 

 fide of the belly ; the head is whitifh.. 



f-j- With round hairy tails. — Cuniculariu. 



4"4 18. Virginian Moufe. — Mus virginianus. 



The tail is univerfally hairy, very thick at the bafe, decreafes gradually, and becomes- 

 very long and (lender. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 307. Arft. zool. n. 62. 



Mus fylveftris americanus albus, or White American Field. Moufe. Seba, Muf. i. 76* t. xlviL.. 

 6.4... 



Inhabits Virginia. — The nofe is pointed and black ; the ears pointed ; the limbs very flender ; the : 

 colour is univerfally white ; the tail tapers gradually from the. rump, fo as hardly to be diftinguifhed 

 from that at. its origin, 



48J 19. Rock Moufe. — 17. Mus faxatilis. 21. 



The tail is hairy, and of a middle length ; the ears are longer than the fur ; the fore 

 paws have three toes and the rudiments of a fourth. Pallas, Clir. 80. n. 19. and p. 255.. 

 t. 23. B. Schreberj iv. 667. t. clxxxv. 



Rock Moufe. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 312. 



Inhabits the eaftern parts of Siberia, beyond lake Baikal, and in the deferts of Mongul Tartary.— . 

 Burrows in the fiffures of rocks, forming a winding oblique paffage, which afterwards branches out 

 into feveral others pointing downwards, and ending in a chamber, in which is a bed, or neft, made of 

 foft herbs. This fpecies is about four inches long, and weighs nearly nine drams ; the tail is an inch 

 and a half in length, of a brown colour above, and white beneath; the head is oblong, with a longifh 

 nofe, and oval, downy ears, brown at the edges ; the limbs are ftrong ; and the tail is thinly covered 

 ■With hair; the upper parts of the body are of a brown colour, {lightly mixed with yellowifh, or grey; 



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