104 FIELD MOUSE. Clafs L 



Do6bor Derham takes notice of this wonderful fa- 

 o-acity of theirs, in providing againft thatfeafon when 

 they would find a defeft of food abroad : but they 

 provide alfo for other animals : the hog comes in for 

 a (hare ; and the great damage v/e fuftain in our 

 fields, by their rooting up the ground, is chiefly owing 

 to their fearch after the concealed hoards of the field 

 mice. 



They generally make the nefl for their young very 

 near the furface, and often in a thick tuft of grafs 3, 

 they bring from feven to ten at a time. 



Species V. The fhort- tailed Field Moufe. 



Mus agreftis capite grand! brachi* Mus agreftis. Faun. Suec. 30. 



urus. Raiijyn. quad. 218. De Buffoit, Tom. vii. 369. Ti?^. 

 Mus Cauda brevi pilis e nigrican- 47. 



te et fordide luteo mixtis in K/ei?i quad. 57. No, 50. 



dorfo et faturate cinereis in ven- Br. Zool. 50. 



tre vefticis. Bri/Jhn quad, iz^^ 



NAMES. 



Btin Llygoden gwtta'r maes Fren. Le petit Rat de champs, 

 Ital. Campagnoli ' Le campagnol 



Dan. Skier-muus 



TH E length of this fpecies, from the nofe to the 

 tail, is about fix inches ; the tail only an inch 

 and a half : the head is very large : the eyes promi- 

 nent : the ears quite hid in the fur : the whole upper 

 part of the body, is of a ferruginous color, mixed 

 with black -, the under fide of a deep afh-color : the 

 tail is covered with fhort hair, ending with a little 

 bufh, about a quarter of an inch long. 



This 



