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Show 1881.] INDIAN SPECIES OF MUS. 547 have never seen a specimen, preserved in spirit, in which the tail was considerably shorter than the head and body, as it is there stated to be. One of this very series, moreover, is in the British Museum; hut it is only a much stretched skin, in which, nevertheless, the tail is but little shorter than the head and body. It will he seen by the table of measurements that in all the adult specimens the hind foot is considerably shorter than the tibia, but in an immature specimen {d) it is longer. This difference, combined with the more dusky belly and more convex skull, inclined me at first to consider this Sind specimen, and another quite agreeing with it from Muscat, a distinct species ; but I now believe that these differences are only due to immaturity. It is true that in both specimens all the molars are fully grown up into their places ; but they are not worn at all, as are those of the other specimens measured. 13. MUS CERVICOLOR. *Mus cervicolor, Hodgs. Ann. & Mag. N . H . xv. p. 268 (1845). M. strophiatus, Hodgs. loc. cit. (1845). IM. alBidiventris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxi. p. 351 (1852). HaB. Nepal; Calcutta' (Blyth). " Abundant in cultivated fields of the valley of Nepal " {Hodgson). Fur above and below slate-coloured for three fourths of its length, the tips being above pale fawn, quite hiding the slate, and below white. Ears rather large, rounded, covered on both sides with very short shining hairs. Tail usually about equal to the body alone, without the head, by which character this species may be readily distinguished from all other Indian Mice, with the exception of M. {Leggada) buduga (q. v.). Caecum short, pouch-like, bent round upon itself. Mammae 10, three pectoral and two inguinal pairs. The skull, viewed from the side, seems to be more flattened than usual in the frontal and nasal regions. On the whole it is similar to that of M. (L.) buduga ; but this flattening is much more strongly marked in M. cervicolor, L. Buduga having a distinct convexity of the outline just in front of the orbits. Dimensions. Nepal (Hodgson). a. rf. b. $. Head and body 2*9 2*9 Tail 2*8 2-65 Hind foot '65 *64 Forearm and hand '80 *80 Ear-conch, length -45 -49 Muzzle to ear '82 -80 1 ? Leygada buduga, Gr. |