i8<5 <^U ADRUPEDES. 
(the Moufe of Pharaoh.) The refemblance it has 
to a Moufe (Mus terreftris) in regard to the colour 
and hair, might have induced ignorant people, who 
know nothing of natural hiftory, to call it a Moufe; 
but I cannot conceive why they Ihould call it Pha- 
raoh’s Moufe. The Egyptians were too intelligent, 
in the time of Pharaoh, to call it a Moufe, having 
knowledge enough to give true defcriptions and fig- 
nificant names to all natural bodies ; nor is it at 
this day called Phar by the Arabs, which is the 
name for Moufe, but they call it Nems, as I have 
before obferved. What is related concerning its 
entering the jaws of the Crocodile, is fabulous. 
5 . Vefpertilio JEgyptiacus. The Egyptian Bat, 
It is of the fize of a fmall Moufe, and lives in the 
gardens of Rofetta, near the banks of the Nile. 
6 . Mus Jaculuss. Jumping Moufe. 
Tills animal is of the fize of a large Moufe: ft 
fupports itfelf only on its hind legs, and therefore 
hops or jumps in its progreffive motion. When ft 
refts, it clofes its feet to its belly, and fits on its 
knees, bent ; it holds its victuals with its fore-feet, 
or paws, as do the reft of this tribe ; it is fond of 
fleep, fieeping in the day and waking at nights; ft 
eats wheat, wheat bread, and the feeds of oily grain 
(Sefamum.) Though it is not much afraid of a ma«> 
yet it is not eafily tamed: for this reafon, it is always 
kept in a cage; and I have known one of thefe ani- 
mals kept for fome months, and even a year, in this 
manner at Cairo. It is met with in Egypt, or be- 
t Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 63. N. 15. 
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