. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. /'//A VOLES FIELD MICH. 847. Red-Backed Meadow Mouse. mys gappert.) of a vegetable character, as it mainly subsists on in- sects and worms and in a wild state may occasion- ally catch a small bird. When in a state of captivity it is partial to an animal diet. It also eats corn, seeds and bulbous roots and the bark of young trees, especially in winter. When the species is numerous in a forest it can cause untold damage by gnawing the bark of young s
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. /'//A VOLES FIELD MICH. 847. Red-Backed Meadow Mouse. mys gappert.) of a vegetable character, as it mainly subsists on in- sects and worms and in a wild state may occasion- ally catch a small bird. When in a state of captivity it is partial to an animal diet. It also eats corn, seeds and bulbous roots and the bark of young trees, especially in winter. When the species is numerous in a forest it can cause untold damage by gnawing the bark of young shoots and it sometimes com- pletely destroys an immense number of newly planted trees. It rarely wanders far away from its forest home but will occasionally visit neighboring fields and there causes great damage after the man- ner of others of its family. It bears con- finement and be- comes tolerably tame in a short time. It gener- ally lives peace- ably when asso- ciated with oth- ers of its own or allied species. The Red-backed Meadow Mouse {Evotomys gappert) is the representative of a distinct sub-family of the Voles distin- guished from all the other Arvicoles by peculiarities of denti- tion and cranial development It is the American congener of the Hank Vole to which it is closely allied. In fact, it is held by several authorities that the Red-backed Meadow Mouse and the Bank Vole are both southern climatic offshoots of a still more northern species, the Red Vole I. Xrvicola rutifas) which is an inhabitant of northern Europe, Siberia and arctic America. Field Vole or The Field Vole or Short Tailed Field Short Tailed Field Mouse (Arvicola agresHs) is the rep- Mouse. resentative of a distinct sub-species. Its fur is ' two-colored; the upper parts are dark- brownish gray, the flanks somewhat lighter, the abdomen and feet grayish white; the tail is also dark- brown above and grayish white below. The Field Vole inhabits the northern portions of the Old World: Scandinavia, Denm
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