. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. riiotograpli by MeUalJe, PukeDOEMICL. Mice, Voles, and Rats 127. Photograph by T. A. Metcalfe, MOUSE. and when diving, surrounded by a track ofair bubbles, it looks very pretty. I haveseveral times picked them up dead far fromwater, so that they evidently travel longdistances at times. The hind feet and undersurface of the tail are. beautifully fringedwith stiff hairs to assist them in their passagethrough the water. I have known the nestsituated in the bottom of an old wall, notfar from a ditch, contai
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. riiotograpli by MeUalJe, PukeDOEMICL. Mice, Voles, and Rats 127. Photograph by T. A. Metcalfe, MOUSE. and when diving, surrounded by a track ofair bubbles, it looks very pretty. I haveseveral times picked them up dead far fromwater, so that they evidently travel longdistances at times. The hind feet and undersurface of the tail are. beautifully fringedwith stiff hairs to assist them in their passagethrough the water. I have known the nestsituated in the bottom of an old wall, notfar from a ditch, containing young a quartergrown at the end of June. The ordinarycolour is a very deep brownish black aboveand silvery white beneath, but there is amelanic variety, of which I have obtainedseveral, that is almost black all over, bothabove and below. The Dormouse is far more common in the southern counties than, in the north,and its nests may often be found amongst the brambles and the tangled undergrowthin plantations. In the autumn the dormouse lays up a quantity of fat, and havingprovided a store of food in case of need, it retires to re
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