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than the whole body; it is of a very Angular form, being flatted, and is covered 
with a few fcattered hairs: the fore-legs are two inches long, and each is terminated 
by a broad foot, the toes of which are armed with very (harp claws: the hinder legs 
are larger and longer; the toes are connected by a membrane, as in the common wa¬ 
ter rat, for the advantage in fwimming. 
This is frequent in Tartary and Ruflia, and in fome other parts of the world, and 
has a very ftrong perfumed fmell like mu(k, which is preferved in the dried (kins brought 
over to us, and called Mu(k-wafs (kins. Ray calls it Mus aquaticus exoticus, after 
Clufius. 
Mus cauda hirfuta , pedibus rubentibus . 
The hairy-tailed Mus , with red feet . 
3Tt)e great 
This is of the fize of the rat, but more corpulent: the head is fhort and thick % 
the opening of the mouth fmall; the noftrils flefh-coloured 5 the eyes large, black, 
and prominent, and the ears large and naked. 
The head is of a deep lead colour, with a tinge of brown : the back is of a dark 
brown, with fome admixture of grey, but with very little of the blue tinge in it: 
the belly is white, as are alfo the infide of the thighs, and the under part of the tail ; 
there is a blacknefs all about the noftrils, as alfo round the eyes, and the fame colour is 
viiible on the extremity of the tail. 
This is frequent in many parts of Europe; it retires into caverns in the ground in 
winter, but it carries into them a very conftderable ftore of nuts, and other fruits. 
All the writers on quadrupeds defcribe it. Pliny calls it Sorex; Gefner, Mus avella- 
narum; Ray, Mus avellanarum major. 
Mus corpore longiore , cauda brevi . 
The Mus , with a long body , and Jhort taiL 
%lyt Cttttie. 
This is very different in fhape from all other of the rat-kind : the head is fhort 
and fmall; the fnout is (harp-, the opening of the mouth is narrow, and the teeth 
long and (harp; the eyes are very fmall, and not at all prominent: the ears are fcarce 
perceptible, but the apertures are very vifible, as in the male : the whole head is of a 
fomewhat deprefled form. 
The body is long and (lender, and refembles that of the weefel-kind, rather than 
the others of this genus: the head and back are of a dufky brown, with admixture 
of a fllvery grey; the belly is paler ; the tail is very (hort. 
This is a native of many parts of Europe, but not, that I know, of England. 
Gefner calls it Mus noricus vel Citillus; and Ray continues the fame name. The fur 
is ufed, in many parts of the North, in cloathing. The creatures retire in companies 
into caverns for the winter. 
Mus dorfo rutilo , ventre nigricante » 
The Mus , with a reddijh-brown back , and black belly . 
This is confiderably larger than the common rat, and more bulky in the body : the 
head is fmall, and pointed at the extremity ; the mouth is moderately large; the eyes 
are bright, black, and prominent, and the ears naked, (hort, and broad. 
The head is of a bright reddifh-brown on the top, but black on the temples ; the 
back is of the fame colour with the head, unlefs that it is a little more tawny ; the 
(ides are variegated with a few fpots of white; the belly is black, but the throat is 
white : the tail is three inches in length, and thick covered with hairs of a tawny co¬ 
lour, 
