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ming, and forming its retreat. The head is 
large, the ears fmall, and fcarce appear thro’ 
the hair : the nofe blunt, and the eyes little : 
the teeth large, ftrong and yellow : the head 
and body are covered with thick and pretty 
long hairs, chiefly black ^ but mixed with 
fome of a reddifh hue : the belly is of an iron 
grey: the tail is covered with ftiort black hairs, 
the tip of it with white hairs. 
A female that we opened had fix young 
ones in it; 
SPECIES IV. The long tailed FIE LD MOUS E- 
Mus domefticus medius* Ratifyn * 
quad. 218. 
Mus cauda longa fupra e fiifco 
flavefcens infra ex albo cinere- 
fcens. Briffon quad. 174* 
Buffon. Tom. 7. 325. Tab. 41. 
Britijh , Llygoden ganolig, Llygoden] ^ A 
y maes } 
Mus fylvaticus. M. cauda longa, 
palmis tetradactylis, plantis 
pentada&ylis, corpore grifeo 
pilis nigris abdomine albo. Lin. 
fyft. 62. 
Faun Juec. 30; 
[French , Mulot. 
ES 
HIS meafures from the nofe end 
H to the letting on of the tail, four 
inches and a half: the tail is four 
inches long : the eyes are black, large and 
full: the ears prominent: the head and upper 
part of the body, is of a yellowifli brown, 
mixed with fome duiky hairs: the bread is 
of an ochre color; the reft of the under 
fide is white : the tail is covered with ftiort 
hair. 
Thefe animals are found only in fields and 
wardens : in fome places they are called bean 
mice, from the havoke they make among 
beans when firft fown. They feed alfo on 
nuts, acorns, and corn : forming in their bur¬ 
roughs vaft magazines of winter provifion. 
Sape exiguus mus. 
Sub tcrris pofuitque domos atque horrea fecit. 
Virgil. Georg. 1. I. 181 • 
Do&or Derham takes notice of this won¬ 
derful fagacity of theirs, in providing againft 
that feafon when they would find a defeat of 
food abroad : but they provide alfo for other 
animals: the hog comes in for a ftiare $ and 
the great damage we fuftain in our fields, by 
their rooting up the ground, is chiefly owing 
to their fearch after the concealed hoard of 
the field mice. 
They generally make the neft for their 
young very near the furface, and often in a 
thick tuft of grafs $ they bring from feven to 
ten at a time. 
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