Rodent Collection (page 5)

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals

Graomys lockwoodi
Views of Graomys lockwoodi skull. Original specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Phyllotis cachinus
Views of Phyllotis cachinus skull. Original specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Graomys edithae
Views of Graomys edithae skull. Original specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Tupaia glis, common tree shrew
Teeth in the upper mandible of a male comon tree shrew, showing the fundamental mammalian triangle of sharp, pointed cusps. Scale is in millimetres

Microtus agrestis, field vole
Plate 214 from the Collection of Watercolour Drawings of British Vertebrates, 1830-1841, by William MacGillivray (1796-1851)

Megazostrodon
Reconstruction of Megazostrodon, a rodent-like prey animal. Megazostrodon was probably a nocturnal and one of the first insect-eating mammals

Podogymnura truei, Mindanao gymnure
Ventral view of a male Mindanao gymnure skin specimen, collected from Mount Apo, Mindanao, Philippines

Mesembriomys gouldii, black-footed tree-rat (Gray 1843). BMNH 1842.5.26.18 skull with abnormal incisors collected by Gilbert, holotype

Strix varia, barred owl
Plate 46 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Sciurus vulgaris, red squirrel
Red squirrel skins. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Beelat (aboriginal name)

Enter the Villain by Sala
A fashionably dressed 1920s flapper finds that her new-found confidence is sorely tested by the appearance of a small mouse. Date: 1927

Coypu in a landscape, Chile, South America
A pair of coypu in a landscape of carob acacia trees in Chile, South America. 1824

Plains Viscacha
The Plains Viscacha, a rodent of the Chincilla family. Date: 1960s

You ll be surprised to get this
Dog with dead mouse presenting it to a toy doll. Date: circa 1920

Studies of mice
Studies of Mice by Raymond Sheppard

Rodent / Water Vole
The water vole

Various hares, rabbits, etc
Various rodents: Mountain Hare, White Hare, Rabbit, Beaver, and Muskrat

Various types of rodent: Agouti, Hamster, Marmot, Squirrel, Fat Dormouse, Fieldmouse, House Mouse, Black Rat, Woodmouse, and Blind Mole Rat

Malaca Porcupine
Though less picturesque than the common variety, this rodent quadruped of the hystericidae family knows how to defend itself from its predators

PORCUPINE
Rodent quadruped of the hystericidae family. Its erectile spines, or quills, are a protective device of great effectiveness

Ground Squirrel
Franklins Ground Squirrel (Spermophile Franklinii)

Arboreal Spiny Rat
Arboreal Spiny rat (Echimyidae Echimys)

Bewick / Barb. Squirrel
(sciurus getulus) An attractive rodent, about the same size as the common grey squirrel

Bewick / Flying Squirrel
(petaurista elegans) Bewick seems to say that this exotic rodent can be found in Europe, but today it is largely confined to south-east Asia

Bewick Squirrel Longtail
About three times the size of European squirrels, this rodent is found in Ceylon and Malabar

Bewick / Souslik
(or Suslik) (Mus citellus) Classed by Bewick as a mouse, (he also calls it a Sisel) this rodent lives on the banks of the Volga and in Austria

Bewick / Marmot
Bewick classified this rodent as a mouse and named it MONAX, but he accepted that it was probably the same as the Marmot described by Buffon and not really a mouse

Jerboa (Bewick)
mus jaculus A rodent remarkable for the singular construction of its legs

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