A N D I X. Some Account of the Mus P u m i l io , a new Species o f R a t » . from the Southern Part of A f r i c a , lately difcovered and defcribed by the Author. 1 I ' HIS animal, which has been hitherto totally un- JL known to naturalifts, I found in the foreft of Sit— iicamma, hard by Slangen-rivier, two hundred uurs to,the eaft of the Cape. It is eaiily diftinguifhed from all the other numerous fpecies of the genus to which it belongs, by means of the four black lines which run along its back. The figure annexed in Plate VII. o f this volume, reprefents this rat of its natural fize, being drawn from a ipecimen which I have prefented to the Mufeum of the Swediih Academy: and, as it feems to have attained to its full fize, the mus pumilio, or dwarf moufe, may certainly contend for the palm with the mus minutus and mus betulinus o f M. P a l l a s , as being the moft diminutive quadruped in the whole world. The fpecimen I have in my pofleffion at this time, though impregnated with the fpirits in which it is preferved, weighs no more than four fcruples: con- fequently, - when compared with the gigantic quadrupeds exifting in the fame quarter of the globe, and of which I have given defcriptions as well in the Swediih Transitions Y y a as
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