European water vole or water rat, Arvicola amphibius 75, brown rat, Rattus norvegicus 74, wood mouse or mulot, Apodemus sylvaticus 77, common vole or campagnol, Microtus arvalis 78, and house mouse, Mus musculus 76. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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