Muscine

One can see by the description of the ovum and this account of early blastoderm formation that the egg of Glossina is intermediate between the typical muscine ovum with its thick periplasm and the very thin peripheral cytoplasmic layer of Melophagus, […]

[…] in these respects spinthera is unlike any other muscine larva so far described.

If true, there is something peculiarly interesting in these periodical visitations—or, I should, perhaps, rather say migrations—of mice, for I was informed that these muscine armies come from the interior, or from that direction, towards the sea, which they boldly enter, and are consequently drowned and their bodies cast on the shore "by thousands."

My friend explained to me that every evening two little mice came out from behind the skirting-board in his dining-room, and sang for their supper of cheese, biscuit, and other muscine delicacies, which he took care to place on the carpet for them always at the same hour.

The goal isn't simply to generate offspring, but rather to produce successful offspring, and if you're a mouse, success is best achieved by living fast, loving hard, and dying young […] If you're an elephant, success requires a very different reproductive style. And if you're a human being, you are more elephantine than muscine.