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Hesperomys
Hesperomys is an obsolete genus of American rodents. It was initially broadly defined to include most of the cricetid rodents of the Americas, except the Arvicolinae, but later became restricted to the members of the modern genus Calomys; the latter name has been in use for this genus instead of Hesperomys since 1962.
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It has lately been shown that some quadrupeds much lower in the scale than monkeys, namely Rodents, are able to produce correct musical tones: see the account of a singing Hesperomys, by the Rev.