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Show 1886.] THE HUME COLLECTION. 71 therefore this character cannot be merely a sign of the rutting-season, as I had originally suspected. 17. SCIURUS RUFIGENIS, Blailf. a. 5500', b. 6300', Mt. Mooleyit, 1/2/77 and 31/1/77 (Co-types of species). I have nothing to add to Mr. Blanford's excellent description of this species. There can be no doubt that it is, as he suggests, nearly allied to S. pernyi, M.-Edw., but it may easily be distinguished by its brilliant red cheeks, that species having them grey like the back. The unusual length of the muzzle is equally found in both, and together they seem to lead from the ordinary Squirrels towards the still longer-nosed Rhinosciurus of Gray. It is, of course, quite natural that if the Tibetan $. pernyi were represented in Tenasserim, it would be by a species living at the considerable altitudes at which alone S. rufigenis has been found. 18. SCIURUS BERDMOREI, Blyth. a,b. 2- Myawadi, 18 and 20/1/77. I cannot share the doubts expressed by Mr. Blanford1 as to the identity of these specimens with the true S. berdmorei. Although the markings differ in their intensity, their general plan and disposition is precisely the same in the two forms represented by the names S. berdmorei and S. mouhoti, Gr. It has also a remarkably long and narrow muzzle, very nearly as much as in S. rufigenis, a point which has apparently never been noticed before. 19. SCIURUS MACCLELLANDI BARBEI, Bly. a. S • 9/2/77 (Bingham). b, c. Thoungyah, 11/10/78 (Darling), d. Myawadi, 18/1/77. e. Kankaryit, 12/1/77. f-i. Tavoy, 3 and 4/78. j. Bankasun, 1/6/77. 20. Mus RATTUS RUFESCENS. Gray. a. Moulmein, 8/3/78. The Mus robustulus of Blyth, as Mr. Blanford has suggested, is identical with this, the common Tree-rat of the whole of India. 21. RHIZOMYS BADIUS, Hodgs. a. Thatone. This seems to be the first recorded occurrence of E. badius in Tenasserim, though Blyth's specimens of the so-called " R. casta-neus" came from Arrakan and Pegu. 22. ATHERURA MACRURA, L. a. Thoungyah, 3/10/78 (Darling). 23. TRAGULUS NAPU, Raff. a-d. Bankasun, 5 and 6/77. 1 J. A. S. B. xlvii. p. 162 (1878). |
