. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. Species builds a nest on cocoa-nut trees and bamboos, and occasionally makes predatory \isits to tiie houses. The Striped Mouse (Mit^ barbarus) is remarkable for its coloration, its grovu a bright yellowish-brown or reddish-yellow, adorned with several longitudinal blackish-brown streaks. This elegant Jlouse inhabits Northern Africa, especially in stony places. It is very abundant in Algeria. Nearly allied to the true Mice are numerous foim, more restricted in their distribution, which have 1" u formed into distmct genera. Thws Peloni
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. Species builds a nest on cocoa-nut trees and bamboos, and occasionally makes predatory \isits to tiie houses. The Striped Mouse (Mit^ barbarus) is remarkable for its coloration, its grovu a bright yellowish-brown or reddish-yellow, adorned with several longitudinal blackish-brown streaks. This elegant Jlouse inhabits Northern Africa, especially in stony places. It is very abundant in Algeria. Nearly allied to the true Mice are numerous foim, more restricted in their distribution, which have 1" u formed into distmct genera. Thws Peloniys faUax, in wlii. ii "X^ the incisors are grooved, the tail short, and the first and fifth toes of all the feet shorter than the three middle ones, is peculiar to Mozambique ; Acanthonii/.f, in wliich the fur is mbced with flattened spines, is an African genus; whilst Echinothrix, which has a somewhat similar coat, is Austra- lian. Madagascar possesses two peculiar genera, yesomijs iind Brachytarsomys, the former having some relation to the American Murinse, the latter remarkable for the shortness of the hind feet; and in Australia, besides the genus mului n fim m mi mi non already mentioned, and one or two species of true Mus, we find the genus Hapalotis represented by about thirteen exclusively Australian species. These animals have the hind limbs rather long, the ears large, and the tail long and haiiy, terminating in a tuft. The molar teeth also exhibit a peculiar iiattern. The best known species is the â \Vhite-footed Hapalote {Hajialotln albipes), an animal about the size of the Brown Rat, of a smoky brown colour, with the belly and the feet white. It inhalnts New South Wales, especially in the mountainous parts. The animals of this genus were formerly regarded as allied to the South American Chinchillas and Viscachas. The American Murines all belong to a group to which the name of Sigmodontes has been given, because their molar teeth, which in the young state have
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