mice is 1-250, where the herdsmen of the Telqäˊp are "accused by their neighbors of catching mice and eating them raw", and 1-254, where "nests of mice are also robbed" for the roots stored in them — the Chukchee holding that some of those roots are poisoned by the mice against robbers, "partly as an intoxicant, like fly-agaric".

The book's mice stop here rather than at a genus, for two reasons. Mice in ordinary English is paraphyletic — it is a grade of small rodent, not a group. And the animal that caches roots on the tundra is a vole or a lemming (Arvicolinae) rather than a mouse in any narrow sense, which the page neither says nor needs to: what it records is a practice and a belief about it. Naming Microtus would be a claim about Chukotkan rodents rather than a reading of the sentence.