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Among other officers, his Briti/b majefty has a Kino’s rar. 
rat-caicher, diftinguifhed by a particular drefs, fcar- 
let embroidered with yellow worfted, in which are 
fieures of mice deftroying wheat-fheaves, 
Mus fylveftris, Rat de bois. Mus norvegicus, Kisix quad, 
~ Briffan quad. 20. ie 50s | 
Le Surmulot. De Buffon, Tom. Mus ex norvegia. Seb. Mus. 
vill. 206. Tab. 27. Daiae) UN. OA. 6 Lab. 02. 
Br, Zool. 47. Syn. quad. No.227. 
HIS is a very large fpecies; thicker, and of 
a ftronger make than the common rat: the 
length from the end of the nofe to the beginning of 
the tail, is nine inches; the length of the tail the 
fame; the ufual weight eleven ounces: the ears 
refemble thofe of the rat: the eyes large and black : 
the color of the head and whole upper part of 
the body is a light brown, mixed with tawny and 
afh-color: the end of the nofe, the throat and belly, 
are of adirty white, inclining to grey: the feet 
and legs almoft bare; and of a dirty pale flefh-co- 
lor: the beginning of the tail is of the fame color 
as the back; the reft of the tail is covered with mi- 
nute dufky fcales, mixed with a few hairs. 
This is the fpecies well known in this kingdom 
under the name of the Norway rat; but it is an 
animal quite unknown in Scandinavia, as we have 
been affured by feveral natives of the countries 
that 
CATCHER, 
26. Brown. 
Descrip. _ 
His ft, 
