flitter-mouse

This seemed to me to show very conspicuously the advantage which winged animals have in the matter of cosmopolitan dispersion; for while it was quite impossible for rats, mice, or squirrels to cross the intervening belt of three hundred leagues of sea, their little winged relation, the flitter-mouse, made the journey across quite safely on his own leathery vans, and with no greater difficulty than a swallow or a wood-pigeon.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

Sealed from the moth and the owl and the flitter-mouse --

Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Jean Ingelow 1858

_ORIGINAL TEXT_ _CHANGE_ so dose ‘flitter-mouse’ does is an old preterite præterite instrinsic value it may possess. intrinsic which it belongs; being the same added “)” before semicolon

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

‘Nesh’ in the sense of soft through moisture, ‘leer’ in that of empty, ‘eame’ in that of uncle, _mother’s_ brother (the German ‘oheim’), good Saxon-English once, still live on in some of our provincial dialects; so does ‘flitter-mouse’ or

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846