RAT. 
m 
Two cutting teeth in each jaw. XXXII.RAT* 
Four toes before; five behind. 
Very (lender taper tail; naked, or very (lightly 
haired. 
Mas domefticus major quern vul- Mus Rattus. M. cauda elongata 226. Black. 
go Ratt*um vocant. Gefner quad. fubnuda,palmi's tetrada&ylis cum 
731. Baiifyn. quad. 217. ungu.ic.ulo poilicari, plantis pen- 
JVlus rattus, Mas ciftrinarius. tadaftylis Lin.jyfi. Ratta Vaun. 
Klein quad. 57. fuec. No. 33. Br.Zoql. I. 97* 
Ratze. Kramer Aujlr. 316. ^ Le Rat de Buff on > vii, 278. tab. 
Mus cauda longiffima obfeure xxxvi. 
cinerea. Brijfon quad. 118. 
R. of a deep iron grey color, nearly black: belly 
cinereous: legs dufky, almoil naked: a claw, in 
the place of a fifth toe, on the fore feet: length, 
from nofe to tail, feven inches •, tail near eight. 
Inhabits molt parts of Europe * of late, the num¬ 
bers much leffened, and in many places extirpated 
by the next ipecies: very deftrudive to corn, furni¬ 
ture, young poultry, rabbets and pigeons: will 
gnaw the extremities of infants when aileep : breeds 
often in a year : brings fix or feven young at a time: 
makes its nefi:, in a hole near a chimney, of wool, 
bits of cloth, or draw : will deftroy and devour one 
another 1 its greateil enemy is the weefel. Firffc 
introduced into America by the Europeans % into S. 
America \ about the year 1544, in the time of the 
Viceroy Blafco Nunnez . Is now the peft of all that 
continent. 
'* Gardlajh de la Vega, 384, 
Mm 
