DORMOUSE. 
The Dormouse represenred in our print of 
the size of life, Avas originally hgured bv Ed- 
wards 4 who believes it to have been a voung 
one, not grown to it's full size, though but 
little short of it. The animal, he observes, 
is of a reddish brown, or Fox-colour, on it's 
upper side and tail, and white on the throat 
and belly. " It is," says Edwards, toothed 
like a Squirrel, of which genus I take it to 
be a species. It is common in England ; and 
is found in woods and hedge-rows where Nuts 
abound, on which it principally feeds. It 
sleeps for several months in the winter. They 
are kept tame with us, by manv people, iii 
little hutches, wiih wire cages adjoining to 
them. When tlicy are asleep, they have no 
visible motion of breathing, pulsation, or sen- 
sible warmth." 
This animal, which may be considered, gene- 
rally, as an inhabitant of Europe, is the Mus 
Avellanarum Minor, or Lesser Filbert Mouse, 
of Ray, Johnston, and Aldrovandus ; and the 
J^Iyocus Muscardinus, of Gmelin. 
It is the size cf a Common Mouse, bu 
plumper • 
