TEXAN MEADOW-MOUSE. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
This species was first discovered on the river Brasos, and afterwards 
seen in the country along the Nueces and Rio Grande, where chapparal 
thickets afford it shelter 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
Although this Meadow-Mouse approaches nearer to our cotton rat than 
any other Arvicola with which we are acquainted, it presents very striking 
differences ; its form is lighter and more slender, its heel narrower, tail 
proportionably longer, and fur much softer. The cotton rat is of a uniform 
colour on the back, except the ends of the long hairs being tipped with 
white, but the Texan species presents a somewhat indistinct appearance of 
specks or spots of blackish on a yellow ground. 
