BROWN OR NORWAY RAT. 
29 
every where from Nova Scotia to and beyond our southern range, except 
in the western and northern regions above mentioned, and there even it 
will soon be found in California, at the mouth of the Columbia river, and 
among the settlements in Oregon. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
We had assigned to Linnasus the credit of having been the first describer 
of the Brown Rat. On turning however to his 12th edition, we find no 
notice of this species. In a subsequent edition published by Gmelin in 1778, 
a description is added. It had however been previously described by Pal- 
las in 1767 under the name which it still retains. He is therefore entitled 
to the priority. 
