THE LONG-TAILED FLELD-MOVSE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Two cutting teeth in each jaw. 

 Four toes before, five behind. 



Tail very llender and taper; naked, or very nightly haired, 



Synonims. 

 Mus Agrestis minor, Gefner Quad. 733. 

 Mus Domesti c us medius, Rati Syn. Quad. 218. 

 Mus Sylvaticus, Linn. Syji. 84. 

 Mauss mit weissen bauch, Kramer Aujtr. 317. 

 Mus Cauda longa, Briffbn Quad. 123. 

 Le Mulot, de Buffon, vii. 325. tab. xli. 



THIS animal greatly refembles the Common Moufe in its form, but it is 

 rather larger. In its colour it refembles the Norway Rat, the head, back, and 

 legs being of a yellowilh brown ; the brealt is of an ochre colour, and the 

 belly is white. Its eyes are remarkably large and prominent. It meafures 

 four inches and a half, from the tip of the nofe to the infertion of the tail, 

 which is four inches in length, and is nightly covered with hair. 



This Ipecies of Moufe is found only in fields, woods, and gardens : it 

 feeds on nuts, beech-mafts, acorns, and all kinds of grain, which it collects 

 during the fummer and autumn, and forms large magazines for a winter 

 fupply. The fmell of this buried corn often tempts Hogs to do much 

 damage to the fields, by digging up the ground in fearch of thefe hoards. If 

 they are fhort of provifions, they will devour each other, and even their own 

 young. They make a neft near the furface of the earth, and often in a thick 



