ARVICOLA PINETORUM— Leconte. 
Leconte’s Pine-Mouse. 
PLATE LXXX . — Male and Female. — Natural Size. 
A. Capite crasso ; naso obtuso ; vellere curto ; molli bombycino, instar 
velleri Talpee ; supra fusco-cana, subtus plumbeo. 
CHARACTERS. 
Head large, nose blunt ; fur short, soft, silky and lustrous, like that of the 
mole. Colour, above, brown, beneath, plumbeous. 
SYNONYMES. 
Psammomt’s Pinetoeum, Le Conte, Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History 
of New-York, Vol. III. p. 3, p. 2. 
Aevicola ScALOPSoiDEs, Mole Arvicola. Aud. and Bach, Transactions Acad. 
Nat. Sciences, October, 1841. 
Arvicola Oneida, De Kay, Nat. Hist., N. Y., p. 88. 
DESCRIPTION. 
This species bears some resemblance to Wilson’s Meadow Mouse ; it 
is, however, less in size, and its fur is shorter, more compact and glossy ; 
body rather stout, short and cylindrical ; head large and short ; nose blunt, 
and hairy, except the nostrils, which are naked ; incisors of moderate 
size ; moustaches, fine, and nearly all short, a few reaching the ear ; 
eyes very small ; auditory openings large ; ears very short, not visi- 
ble beyond the fur, thin and membranous, with a few scattered hairs 
on the upper margin ; neck short and thick ; legs short and slender, 
covered with very short, adpressed hairs, not concealing the nails ; 
palms naked. There are four toes on the fore foot, of which the 
second, on the inner side, is the longest, the first and third nearly equal, 
and the fourth shortest ; in place of a thumb, there is a minute, straight, 
but not blunt, nail. The hind feet have five toes, the middle longest, 
the two next on each side being of equal length, and a little shorter 
than the middle one ; the inner toe is considerably shorter, and the 
fourth, placed far back, is the shortest. The nails are weak, nearly 
straight, sharp, but not hooked. The fur on the whole body is short, 
compact and soft, and on the back, glossy. 
