CiLASS I. 



FIELD MOUSE. 



147 



ears small, and scarcely appear through the hair : 

 the nose blunt, and the eyes little : the teeth 

 large, strong, and yellow: the head and body 

 are covered with thick and pretty long hairs, 

 chiefly black, but mixed with some of a reddish 

 hue : the belly is of an iron-grey : the tail is 

 covered with short black hairs, the tip of it with 

 white hairs. 



A female that we opened had six young ones 

 in it. 



Mus domesticus medius. 



Rail syn. quad. 218. 

 Mus cauda longa supra e 



fusco flavescens infra ex 



albo cinerescens. Brisson 



quad. 123. 

 De Buffon, Tom. vii. 325, 



Tab. 41- 



Brit. Llygoden ganolig. 

 Llygoden y maes 



Mus sylvaticus, M. cauda longa 

 squamosa, corpore griseo lu- 

 tescente subtus lateribusque 

 abrupte albo. Gm. Lin. 129. 



Pallas glires. p. 94. n. 42. 



Faun. Suec. 36. 



Brit. Zool. 49. Hist. quad. ii. 

 No. 383. p. 184. 



Fren. Le Mulot 

 Dan. Voed. 



J. Field. 



JL HIS measures from the nose-end to the set- 

 ting on of the tail, four inches and a half; the tail 

 is four inches long : the eyes are black, large, 

 and full ; the ears prominent ; the head and 

 upper part of the body, is of a yellowish brown, 

 mixed with some dusky hairs ; the breast is of 



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Descrip- 

 tion. 



