86 
MAMMALIA. GLIRES. Mus. 
D. Cheeks pouched. 
Acredula, Ears plaited^ body grey, beneath wbitiHi. Siberian 
Inhabits Siberia, near the Ural; 4 inches long ; lives in 
rows, feeks fixid by night. 
Snout thick, upper )ip deeply divided ; fore-teeth upper ycH*''' 
convex, trunc.itc; lower fliarp ; tail Ihort, round, bi'i)"' 
above, white beneath ; 1 inch long; legs white, 
Cricetus, Body beneath deep black j fidcs with 3 white fpots. 
, German Hanif 
2. Entirely black, excep): the tip of the nofe, edges of the 
and feet, which are white. ^ 
Inhabits northern ])arts of forms burrows with if’'’; 
chambers ajid a entrances, one oblicjye in wliicli tlic 
inents are cli'pofited, the other pcrjiendicular ; feeds in fuin'*:* 
on herbs, roots, fruit, rarely flefli ; collets in autumn 
\yintcr ftore various farinaceous feeds, which it carries 
its pouches; ileejis one part of the winter ; female gravid 
a month, brings G — ij young ; runs How, does not cliif'* 
digs dexteroully; fits on its hind-feet ; is the prey of vultn'** 
dogs, rats, x-eniiin and man ; is drllroyed b)'- arlenic or It'-'''”' 
bore made into^ paile ; 10 inches long, female 5. 
Colour limietimes varying to wliite, yellowini or fpotted ; 
on the fore-feet, with the rudiments of a fifth, 5 on the h''’*^ 
feet ; tail 2I inches, covered with long hair ; feet flrort, 'vh'''" 
Arenarius. Body above cinereous, beneath, on thq fides and lit”'’’ 
fnowy. Sand 
Inhabits tlie deferts of ; fierce, untameable ; hurra''’' 
feeds by night on leguminous plants and feeds. ,j 
Head hnge,fnout long ; whijkers longer than the head ; fort'r 
4-toed; hair {oh; 3' inches long. 
Thxus, Body and tail dark cinereous ; beneath white. Zaryzyn 
Inhabits the delerts of Siberia, and mountains of Perjia ; deva”' 
fields of rice, does not become, torpid : 3-1- inches loiw. 
M otitk w'liiie at the circumference ; limbs white at the ei^ds ; 0 '^ 
lids black at the edges ; ears, and flripe down the tail bre"'’’' 
Son^arus. Back cinercoii.s, with a longitudinal black line ; fides , 
egated white and brown ; belly white. 'Songar P , j 
Inhabits landy deferts bf Siberia; burrows and forms repofit^’” ’ 
for gram, ealily tamed, 3 inches long. „ 
Tail thick, blunt, baity-, not J an incli long ; rudiment of % 
thumb without a chw ; lekijkcrs Ihorter than the head, ' 
longer ; feet white. 
