Crossword-Solution: NANUS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dwarfs.--The word "dwarf" is of Saxon origin (dwerg, dweorg) and corresponds to the "pumilio" or "nanus" of the Romans.

Sclater, informs me that this is the case with the Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus; and probably with the Otus Galapagoensis and Zenaida Galapagoensis: so that the number of endemic birds is reduced to twenty-three, or probably to twenty-one.

Washington, 11:67, April 21, 1897) included the following: size approximately the same as in _Microtus [montanus] nanus_; upper parts yellowish; tail usually nearly uniform grayish above and below; auditory bullae much inflated; lateral pits at posterior edge of bony palate unusually shallow.

The four specimens from Wapinitia have the yellowish color of _canicaudus_ to a considerable degree, and show intergradation between _canicaudus_ and _nanus_ in depth of the palatal pits and shape of interpterygoid space.

Conner Mus., State College Washington, 2:24, December, 1929) list under _Microtus nanus_ [= _montanus_] _canescens_ material from Calispell Peak, Washington.