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MTJS HUMILI S. — BACHMAif. 
Little Harvest Mouse. 
PLATE LXV. Males and Females.— Natural size. 
M. corpore supra rutilo-cinereo, et quoad baccas et lineam in utrisque 
lateribus ferrugineo ; subtus flavo-albente. M. musculus minor. 
CHARACTERS. 
Smaller than the house mouse ; colour, reddish-gray above ; cheeks and 
line along the side, light fen'uginous ; beneath, white with a yellowish tinge. 
SYNONYMES. 
Mus nuMiLis, Bacb, Read before the Academy of Nat. Sciences, 183Y. Journal 
Acad., vol. vii. 
Mus HUMiLis, Bach., Acad. Nat. Sciences, Oct. 5th, 1841. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Incisors, small and short ; head, much more rounded, nose, less pointed, 
and skull, proportionably broader than the corresponding portions in the 
common house-mouse ; legs, rather short, and slender ; there are four 
toes on the fore-feet, with a minute and almost imperceptible nail in the 
place of a thumb ; on the hind-foot there are five toes ; claws short, weak, 
sharp, and slightly hooked ; nose, short and pointed ; the moustaches are 
composed of a few hairs, not rigid, of the length of the head -, the eyes 
ore smaller and less prominent than those of the white-footed mouse, re- 
sembling those of the common house-mouse ; the ears are of moderate 
size, broad at base, erect, ovate, clothed on both surfaces and around the 
edges with short adpressed hairs, extending a little beyond the fur ; 
palms naked ; upper surface of feet covered with hairs to the end of nails , 
the tail is round when the animal is in a living state, but after the speci- 
mens are dried, becomes square ; it is thinly clothed with short hairs ; the 
fur on the whole body is short, glossy, and very fine- 
