Vole Collection

Taiga vole, Microtus xanthognathus. (Fulvous-cheeked campagnol, Arvicola xanthognatha). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Bank vole, Myodes glareolus (Red or meadow vole, Arvicola pratensis, and named short-tailed campagnol on the plate in error)

Water vole, Arvicola amphibius
Water vole or black water rat, Arvicola amphibius. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Northern red-backed vole - feeds on Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Mayr) seeds - a cone on the left (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

Frogs playing leapfrog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Water Vole 19C
A pair of water vole. Date: mid-19th century

Capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, and common vole, Microtus arvalis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Northern Red-backed Vole - emerges from a hide in wood-store (Myodes rutilus Pallas). Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia

Tundra / Root Vole - feeds on plants at river Negustyah bank at night (Microtus oeconomus (Pall.)). (tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan) typical across Siberian plains; Uganskii Nature Reserve, Siberia

Northern red-backed VOLE, two young brothers feed on taiga-forest floor near river Negustyah (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

Northern red-backed vole - on taiga-forest floor near river Negustyah (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas). a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia

Northern Red-backed Vole - in search of food. (Clethrionomys rutilus). Taiga Forest, Hadita near Salehard, North Russia

Voles and vegetables
Three voles engaging in digging up carrots

Continental field voles
Two continental field voles

FIELD VOLE
(microtus arvalis) the common or field vole Date: circa 1870

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

By the Stream. From Once Upon a Time no. 135 (11 September 1971)

Rodent / Water Vole
The water vole

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