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near the furface, and often in a thick tuft of grafs : 
brings from feven to ten at a time; called, in fome 
parts of England , Bean-moufe , from the havoke it 
makes among the beans when juft fown. 
American. R. with very long whiikers, fome 
white, others black : ears large, naked and open : 
from the head to the tail, along the middle of 
the back, a broad dark ftripe, ferruginous and 
dulky : the cheeks, fpace beneath the ears, and 
fides, quite to the tail, orange-colored: under- 
fide, from noie to tail, of a fnowy whitenefs : feet 
white: hind legs longer than thole of the Eu¬ 
ropean kind: tail duiky above, whitilK beneath. 
New York. 
The lefs long-tailed field-moufe Sr. Zool. II. App. 498. Ha r- 
V Jg S T. 
R. with eyes lefs prominent than thofe of the for¬ 
mer: ears prominent, of a full ferruginous color 
above, white beneath: a ftrait line along the Tides 
divides the colors : tail a little hairy : length, from 
nofe to tail, two inches and a half: tail two inches: 
weight one-fixth of an ounce. 
Inhabits Hampjhire \ where it appears in greateft 
numbers during harveft: never enters houfes v but is 
carried into the ricks of corn in the (heaves; and 
often hundreds are killed on breaking up the ricks : 
during winter, fhelters itfelf under ground: burrows 
very deep, and forms a warm bed of dead grafs ; 
makes it§ neft for its young above ground, between 
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