ft$fc MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Hats. and Mice. 



toes and the rudiments of a fourth ; the upper parts of the body are afli coloured 

 mixed with dufky, and having a black line along the back. Pallas, Glir. 77. n. ,12. 

 and p. 210. t. xiii. A. Schreber, iv. 684. t. cxciii. 



Hare-tailed Moufe. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 320. Ar£t. zooL n. 66 Dihilkis-Zizchan, Mus va- 

 gus, or Rambling Moufe. Pallas, It. ij. 704. 



Inhabits the deferts near the rivers Ural, Irtifh, and Jenifei. — Each individual forms a. round neft 

 of dried grafs in a burrow, having an oblique and a perpendicular entrance. They feed chiefly on 

 the dwarf iris, but eat all kinds of grain, and. devour other fpecies of this genus, and one another ; 

 they fleep very much, in a rolled up form, and are very flow in their motions, like the. Marmot, but do 

 not become torpid in winter: This fpecies is very falacious ; the males fight together for the females, 

 and the conqueror generally devours the vanquifhed; the female fmells of mufk when in feafon, pro- 

 duces feveral times in the year, and brings five or fix young ones at a birth :'They migrate in great 

 troops, whence the name of rambling mice, which is given them by the Tartars. The head is long, 

 with rough and fwelling lips ; the limbs are fhort and flender ; the tail is'fo fhort, as fcarcely to ap- 

 pear beyond the fur, which is very full and foft; the upper parts of the body are afh coloured, mixed 

 with dufky, and having a dufky line along the middle of the back ; the belly and feet are pale afh 

 colour ; the length of the body and head is between three and four inches ; the tail of the male is 

 fomewhat longer than that of the female. 



503 30. Collared Moufe. — 28. Mus torquatus. 30. 



Has a very fhort tail ; the ears are fhorter than the fur ; the feet have each five toesj; 

 the fur is ferruginous, varied with grey, yellow, and dufky, having a whitifh collar 

 round the neck, and a dark line along the back. Pallas, Glir. 77. n. ii. and p. 206. t. xi. 

 B. Schreber, iv. 686. t. cxciv. 



Ringed Moufe. Penn. hift. of quad. n. .318. Arct zool. i. 137. E. 



Inhabits the northern parts of the Uralian mountains, and the marfhes near the frozen ocean.— 

 Feeds chiefly on the Lichen rangiferinus, Lichen nivalis, and Polygonus viviparus ; thefe articles of 

 .food are ftored up in burrows, having numerous paflages, which it digs under the turfy foil. This 

 fpecies is migratory, and refembles the next in its manners. The nofe is blunt ; the legs are fhort 

 and ftrong, and the feet are covered on the foles with fur, having very ftrong hooked claws on the 

 toes ; the fur on the whole body is very fine, of a ferruginous colour on the upper parts of the body, 

 mixed with grey and yellow, fometimes pale grey, and undulated with dufky ruft colour; from the 

 ears down each cheek is a bed of dufky, then a ring or collar of white round the neck, and behind 

 that another dufky patch ; the head and body are a little more than three inches long ; the tail is 

 dufky, hardly one inch long, and has a tuft of hard briftles at the end, which is blunt. 



roA 31. Lemming. — 29. Mas Lemmus. 5. 



Has a very fhort tail; the ears are fhorter than the fur; the feet have each five toes; the 

 body is variegated with tawny and black on the upper parts, and is white underneath. 

 Pallas, GILr. 77. n. 10. and p. 186. t. xii. A. B. Schreber, iv. 687. t. cxcv. «. p. 



Moufe, 



