64 , MINUTE MOUSE. 



seems to be in corn-ricks, into which they arc 

 carried in harvest. " A neighbour of Mr. White s 

 housed an oat-rick^ in which were some hundreds 

 assembled under the thatch. The measure of the 

 animal is just two inches and a quarter from nose 

 to tail, and the tail just two inches long. Two 

 of them in a scale just weighed down a copper 

 halfpenny, which is about the third of an ounce 

 avoirdupois, so that they may be considered as 

 the smallest of the British quadrupeds. 



MINUTE MOUSE. 



Mus Minutus. M, cauda longa squamosa, corpore supra ferru- 

 gineo subtus albido. Pall. Glir. p. 95. Li/i. Syst» Nat, GmeL 

 p, 130. 



Ferruginous Mouse, whitish beneath, with long scaly tail. 

 Little Mouse. Fennant Quadr. i, p, igi. 



This species, according to Dr. Pallas, is fre- 

 quent in the birch woods of Siberia, as well as in 

 many of the temperate parts of Russia, frequent- 

 ing cora-fields, and barns. Its general colour is 

 a deep tawny above, and white below ; the nose 

 is sharpish and of a dusky colour, with a white- 

 ness at the corners of the mouth : the ears are 

 hid in the fur ; the feet grey : the length from 

 nose to tail is little more than two inches, and the 

 weight not half a dram. Those found in Siberia 

 are of a richer or more fulvous colour than those 

 of other regions. This animal. Dr. Pallas says, 

 is very frequent in autumn and winter in corn- 



