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MR. MIDDLETON'S letter in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 460, induced me to inquire whether the black rat still occurs in Dresden, the museum under my care possessing several specimens, which were procured on the spot several years ago. The streets where this rat then occurred being known to me, viz., Meissener-strasse, Alaun-gasse, Königsbrücker-strasse, all on the right bank of the Elbe, in Dresden-Neustadt. I inquired in many houses, offering a relatively high reward for a specimen, but hitherto in vain. The museum possessing further a specimen from a place called the Schenkhübel, about an hour's walk from the town, in the direction of the last of the above-named streets, I had traps put there, but also in vain; only the brown rat, Mus decumanus, could be procured.
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MEYER, A. Distribution of the Black Rat. Nature 20, 29 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020029a0
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