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Description: | Glasgow Police (preprinted on a white gummed label). St Kilda Field Mouse 69 (written on the label). MANU [Glasgow Police] [first half 20th century] [Glasgow] [Scotland] One of 313 reference specimens of animal hair representive of a collection which originally encompassed at least 176 species. The cover slip is square. There are three or four fibres which appear to be guard hairs and several from the under coat. This is probably a sample of hair of a subspecies of woodmouse *Apodemus sylvaticus* that was called *hirtensis* after the island of Hirta in the St Kilda group but may have been renamed. The wood mouse is also known as the common field mouse or long-tailed field mouse. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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