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COMMON MOUSE. 



Class I. 



They are more slender than the other long-tailed 

 Field Mouse ; their eyes less prominent ; their 

 ears naked, and standing out of the fur ; their 

 tail slightly covered with hair ; their back of a 

 fuller red than the larger species ; inclining to 

 the color of a Dormouse : the belly white ; a 

 strait line along the sides dividing the colors of 

 the back and belly. 



30. Mouse. 



Common. 



Mus domesticus vulgaris seu 

 minor. Rail syn. quad. 218. 



Seb. Museum, i. Tab. 1 11. f. 6. 

 its skeleton. Tab. 31. 



Gesner quad. 714. 



Mus cauda longissima, obscure 

 cinereus, ventre subalbes- 

 cente. Brisson quad. lig. 



Be Buffon, Tom. vii. 30g. 

 Tab. 3g. 



Brit. Llygoden 



Fren. La Souris 



Ital. Topo, sorice 



Span. Raton 



Port. Ratinho 



Mus musculus. M. cauda 

 elongata, subnuda, palmis 

 tetradactylis, plantis penta- 

 dactylis, pollice mutico. 

 Gm.Lin. 128. 



Faun. Suec. 34. 



Mus minor, Musculus vul- 

 garis. Klein quad. 57. 



Br. Zool. 50. Hist. quad. ii. 

 No. 382. p. 184. Arct. 

 Zool. i. 152. 



Germ . Maus 



Dut. Muys 



Swed. Mus 



Dan. Muus. 



X HIS timid, cautious, active, little animal, is 

 too well known to require a description ; it is 

 entirely domestic, being never found in fields, 

 or, as M. Biiffbn observes, in any countries un- 

 inhabited by mankind. It breeds very frequently 



