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Mice
Any of numerous small rodents with pointed snout, rather small ears, elongated body, and slender hairless or sparsely haired tail, including all the smaller members of the genus Mus and many members of other rodent genera and families having little more in common than their relatively small size. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
House Mouse
Mus musculus
Characteristics – Smallest of the four rodent species, weighs about 1/2 ounce, measures 6 to 7 inches long from nose to tip of tail. Nests in any type of shelter, inside buildings, rock walls, rock piles, under boards, in burrows, under cane plants, and in truck-crop fields. Damage may be extensive to truck crops, flowers, etc. Degree of resistance to plague in Hawaii has not been determined.
Color: Body color varies from yellowish dirty tan to dusky grey, darker over back, lighter underneath. More information mice