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The stripped logs leave me ignorant as to this detail. Clytus tropicus, a sapper of the cherry-tree, C. arietis and C. arvicola, sappers of the hawthorn, have a cylindrical exit-gallery, with a sharp turn to it.
A Vole resembling the Arvicola arvalis, but larger, paler, and more rat-like, with large shining eyes and very short tail, overran in 1892-93 the classic land of Thessaly, the land of Olympus, and the Vale of Tempe. It has always inhabited this region, and the old Greeks had an Apollo Smintheus, or Myoktonos, the Mouse-destroying God. "At the beginning of March," according to Prof.
In the first place, let us define our animal. What is a water-rat, and where is its place in zoological systems of the present day? Its name in science is Arvícola amphíbius. This title tells its own story. Though popularly called a rat, the animal has no right to the name, although, like the true rat, it is a rodent, and much resembles the rat in size and in the length and colour of its fur.
Outside view of posterior molar, lower jaw: one-third of natural size. Hyaena spelaea, Goldf. Kent's Hole, Torquay, Devonshire; one-third natural size. Teeth of a new species of Arvicola, field-mouse; from the Norwich Crag. Newer Pliocene. a. Grinding surface. b. Side view of the same. c. Geographical Distribution, Form, and Characters of Glacial Drift.
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