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Show 362 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3 Hill, 2200 feet elevation, March 1896; two specimens from Tanglin, Singapore, April 1896; one specimen from Pachim, Siam, March 1897; one specimen from Paknam Menam, Siam, August 1898 ; and I saw what I believe to be this species at Pakpreo, Siam, in June 1897. Colour of Paknam specimen:-Upper surfaces pale rufous brown, lower surfaces pure white, tail dark above and light below. Distribution. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula. 130. Mus DECUMANUS Pall. " The Norway Rat." 3Ius decumanus, Cantor, p. 46; Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 408. " Tikus " of the Malays (name applied to any species of rat). Cantor records this species from Penang and the Peninsula ; Hanitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 11) records it from Singapore. In Siam I never saw this species alive or trapped it, but three times found dead rats (which appeared to be M. decumanus) in Bangkok, in each instance in that quarter of the town where the foreign shipping lies along the wharfs. In Georgetown, Penang, this species is common ; it is rufous brown above, buff below. Distribution. Cosmopolitan. 131. Mus MUSCULUS Linn. The Common House-Mouse. Mus musculus?, Cantor, p. 46; Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 413. " Tikus ruma " (i. e. house-rat) of the Malays. Cantor gives habitat " Pinang," and says :-" In colour, this slightly differs from the European mouse, the upper parts being a mixture of shining grey and tawny. The separate hairs are leaden-grey at the base, then tawny with black apex; some are longer and uniformly dark brown. Beneath pale ash. The ears are large, more than one-half the length of the head, with very short hairs, rounded, blackish. Toes, palms, and soles whitish. Tail slender, dark-grey, with very short appressed brown hairs. Length of the head and body, two and five-eighth inches (67 mm.), tail two and four-eighth inches (64 mm.)." Hauitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 11) records this species from Singapore. 1 obtained only three specimens of tbe Common Mouse, two trapped in houses in Singapore (Jan. & Dec. 1896), and one picked up dead in the bazaar at Chantaboon (Jan. 1898). There were none in the houses in which we lived, in Bangkok, Kedah, or Penang. Of the second specimen from Singapore, Mr. Oldfield Thomas writes to m e : - " Very typical house specimen, with brown meta-podials but white fingers and toes, a very characteristic coloration." Distribution. Cosmopolitan. 132. NESOCIA sp. inc. Bandicoot Rat. At least one species of Nesocia occurs in the Malay Peninsula, |