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Show MAMl\fALIA. 6I In. Length from nose to root of tail (Engli~h m asurc) of tail Lines. Length of cars of tarsus (the claws included) • G ln. Lines. 0 9 3J. It appears from this description that the Mus Angouyn is a smaller animal, and differs both in colouring and proportions from the Mus B1·aziliensis. Brandt has figured and described a rat undct· the name of 1J1us Angouya, which in many re pccts agrees better with Azara's description; there are, however, discrepancies in the dimensions. 22. Mus MICROPus. Pun: XX. l\Ius rnicropus, ll 'aterlt. , Proceedings of tho Zoological Society of London for l~cbruary 1837, p. 17. M. supdtfuscus; subtz'ts cinerescenti-albus, pallide jlavo tiuctus; ped£bus pilis sonlide albis tectis, aul1jJedt'bus parvulz's; auribus parvulis; caudd, quoad longitudinem, C01]J'us fere cequaute, su1wd .fused, sztbtils sordide alba. DE CRIPTION.-Form stout, ears rather small, tail nearly equal to the body in length, fur very long and moderately soft, general colour of the upper parts of head and body, brown ; of the sides of the body grayish, faintly washed with yellow, of the under parts grayish white, faintly tinted with yellow; hair covering the upper surface of the feet di1·ty white; on the tarsus there is a very slight yellow tint; ears well clothed with hairs, those on the inner side chiefly of a yellow colour; tail above, dusky brown; beneath dirty white: hairs of moustaches black at the base and grayish at tlte apex; incisol's pale yellow: hairs of the back deep gray at tho base, annulatcd with brownish ye1Jow neat· tho apex, aud dusky at the apex; longer hairs dusky black; hairs of the belly deep gray at the base and broadly tipped with yellowish white. Length frorn nose to root of tail of tail from noso to car In. Lines. (j 0 3 Habitat, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, (April.) Lcngtl1 of tarsus (claws includc<.l) of oar Jn, Liues. 0~ G |