Various legumes and herbs grew among the clumps but there was space for Plains Rats, Gould's Mice and Pale-Field rats to run about in the open as they fed. These are graceful and beautiful creatures. Although they are true rats and mice, the association of the name with the introduced rodents unfairly denigrates them.

Eric Rolls, The Pillaga, Murray-Darling Basin Commission Reading the Land, 1997

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