GREAT WOOD MOUSE OF AMERICA. 
hairs like hogs bristles. The tail is naked, 
and curls at the end ; and that of the male is 
spotted with a deep red bay colour. The 
upper part of the body is reddish ; but the 
belly, feet, muzzle, and forehead, are of a 
whitish yellow, except round the eyes, where 
it is of a deep brown. All the nails on the 
fore feet, and those on the great toes of the , 
hind feet, are blunt and short, but the rest are 
sharp. The feet are like those of a monkey, 
and it carries it's young on it's back. Some, 
he adds, call it the Wood Dormouse. 
In the above description, though by no 
means exa6tly according in every particular, ' 
it is impossible not to recognise the animal of 
Buchoz, which we have called the Great 
Wood Mouse of America ; conceiving it 
rather a Mouse — if not, in reality, a large 
species of Dormouse — than a Rat, as we ge- i. 
nerally understand that word, of any dcnomi- .j 
nation whatever. 
I 
It is not a little singular, that BufFon, in de- 
scribing the common Brown Rat, or Surmulot, 
observes 
