Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado rivers / by Captain L. Sitgreaves.

  • United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado rivers / by Captain L. Sitgreaves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Genus MUS, Cuv. Mi's musculus, Linn.—The common Mouse. Mus musculus, Linn, 11th ed., p. 83. « “ Say, Longs. Exp., vol. 1, p. 262. « “ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 84. Common about all the settlements in the Indian territory, Texas, New Mexico, and California. Mus decumanus, Linn.—1The brown or Norway Eat. Mus decumanus, Linn, Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel., t. p. 127. “ “ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 78. “ “ Schreber Saugthiere, p. 645. “ “ Aud. and Bach. Quad. N. A., vol. 2, p. 22, pi. 54. Mus aquaticus, Gesner’s Quad, p. 732. Found throughout all the settlements wherever there were white settlers. It has made its appearance in California within the last five years, and now is quite common in all the large towns. Genus HESPEROMYS, Waterhouse. Hesperomys Texana, Woodhouse.—The Texas Mouse. Hesperomys Texana, Woodhouse, Proc. A. N. S., Phila, vol. vi. Char. EssENT.-Smaller than the H.leucopus; head shorter and more blunt; ears smaller and more round, brown above; white, inclining to yellowish, be- neath. Description.—Head largo, blunt; eyes prominent and dark-brown; ears erect, roundish, oval, blunt, sparsely covered outwardly with short appressed brown hairs, inwardly with gray; thumb of fore-feet a tubercle, furnished with a long blunt nail; two middle toes, the longest subequal; hind feet furry, with the excep- tion of the sole; whiskers long. Color.—Hair dark-cinereous, above tipped with pale brown and dusky, so as to have rather a mottled appearance; beneath with white, inclining to) ellou 1 e two colors, that is to say above aud beneath, separated tolerably distinctly from each other in a straight line; tail above brown, beneath white; nose mixed brown and gray, or pale brown; whiskers black and gray; legs white on their inner surface only; feet white, the hairs projecting over the nails. Habitat.—Western Texas. . Dimensions.—Total length from tip of nose to root of tail m„ Total length of tail „ Total length of head 1 (C Height of ear 10