Description
The brush mouse is a medium-sized mouse with small ears and a long tail. It has yellowish-brown fur on the body, with slate grey underparts. The tail has only sparse hair for most of its length, but a distinct brush-like tuft of hair at the tip (although the common name is, perhaps, more likely to come from brushy environment in which it lives). It has a head-body length of 86 to 105 millimetres (3.4 to 4.1 in) with a tail 88 to 115 millimetres (3.5 to 4.5 in) long. It is very similar in appearance to a number of closely related species of mouse living in the same area, although it can be distinguished from them by such features as the length of its tail, the size of its ears, and the presence of the tuft on the end of the tail.
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