Birch Mouse
Sicista armenica
Sicista betulina
Sicista caucasica
Sicista caudata
Sicista concolor
Sicista kazbegica
Sicista kluchorica
Sicista napaea
Sicista pseudonapaea
Sicista severtzovi
Sicista strandi
Sicista subtilis
Sicista tianshanica
Birch mice (genus Sicista) are small jumping desert rodents that resemble mice with a long tufted tail and very long hind legs, allowing for remarkable leaps. All variants possess a long tail of 65 to 110 mm (2.6 to 4.3 in) of length and weigh about 6 to 14 g (0.21 to 0.49 oz). Head and body length of 50 to 90 mm (2.0 to 3.5 in) and hind foot length of 14 to 18 mm (0.55 to 0.71 in). The skin color is light brown or dark-brown to brownish yellow on the upper side and paler on the underside, but generally brownish.
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“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
With all her young ones hanging at her teats;”
—John Clare (1793–1864)