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Common dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius (Muscardin dormouse, Mus avellanarius). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Griffith, Harriet or Edward
Egyptian jerboa, Syrian jerboa, dormouse, tamarisk rat, lineated mouse, and economic mouse.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794
Muscardinus avellanarius, common dormouseDetail from plate 136 Dormouse. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 3, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)
DORMOUSE(muscardinus avellanarius) on the left is a suirrel- tailed dormouse, on the right a garden dormouse : they hibernate in wnter, dormant, hence their name