This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...held before him in a coquettish way. His tail is often twice the length of his body, and is tipped with a brush of long hairs. He has a knowing look in his face, with its upright, furry ears and bright eyes. Being dark brown above, yellowish brown on the sides, and white underneath, with white stockings, he makes a gay ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...held before him in a coquettish way. His tail is often twice the length of his body, and is tipped with a brush of long hairs. He has a knowing look in his face, with its upright, furry ears and bright eyes. Being dark brown above, yellowish brown on the sides, and white underneath, with white stockings, he makes a gay figure among his more soberly dressed companions; yet his fur is notably coarse and rough. Various names are given him, such as the wood-mouse, kangaroo-mouse, and others. Of the Muridae we have in the eastern half of the United States the muskrat; the large nestbuilding wood-rat (Southerly); the queer lemmingmouse (Synaptomys) of the West; the diminutive gray harvest-mouse (Ochetodon) of the prairies and westward; the long-eared red-backed mouse (Evotomys), which is mostly Canadian; and the two genera Microtus and Peromyscus, whose representatives are our most common field-mice. The genus Microtus includes a great tribe of voles scattered over most parts of the world, of which no less than seventy different species and varieties are recognized in North America alone by the latest monographer; which simply shows how numerous and widespread they are and how each locality impresses the voles that dwell there with some more or less noticeable peculiarity of color or proportion of parts. Thus the voles that dwell on Gull Island, at the entrance to Long Island Sound, and those on little Muskeget Island, near Nantucket, are each given specific names to mark the differences that their isolated life has brought about in the course of time. With these fine distinctions the reader need not disturb his mind, but content himself with remembering that in the East all the voles, or meadow-mice, are more or less varieties of either the common meadow-mouse (...
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