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Show 78 ON THE MAMMALS OF THE HUME COLLECTION. [Jan. 19, north of Pinang, although in his list of the magnificent series Leyden Museum, Dr. Jentink mentions one specimen from Canton' and two from Nepal2, but m y reasons for doubting the testimony of these are in the subjoined footnote. S. badging possesses four inguinal mammae only. 25. SCIURUS INSIGNIS, F. Cuv. a. Klang, Salangore. b. Salangore (Syers), 18/11/79. c. Jaffaria, Johore, 20/3/80. This species, like S. berdmorei, has six mammae, viz.:-one lateral and two inguinal pairs. 26. SCIURUS (RHINOSCIURUS) LATICAUDATUS, Mull. & Schl. a. 2 • Klang, Salangore, 5/5/79. This seems to be the most northern locality as yet recorded for the Long-nosed Squirrel. 27. CHIROPODOMYS GLIROIDES, Bly. (?). a. Jaram, Salangore, 23/12/79 (Darling). This specimen belongs to the rare and interesting genus Chiropodomys, described by Peters in 1868 3, but afterwards4 erroneously identified by him with Pithecochirus, F. Cuv.5, a very different and much larger animal. The specific name, however, to be applied to this specimen is a matter of some doubt. Blyth's description of Mus gliroides from the Khasia hills 6, based on a specimen with an imperfect tail, seems to agree very closely with the present animal, and his Mus peguensis"' is also possibly the same thing; but unfortunately we have no evidence as to whether C. penicillatus, as it was called by Peters, ascends as far north as Assam or Pegu, or is a purely Malay species, and pending an examination of Blyth's type, it is therefore difficult to decide what its proper specific name should be. So far as I know, the only examples of this genus that have as yet come to Europe are two specimens in the Museum collection obtained by Mr. Wallace at Sadong, Borneo ; Peters's type in the Berlin Museum, unfortunately without locality ; two spirit-specimens 1 It is suspicious that two Squirrels so peculiarly characteristic of the region as 8. tenuisnn<$. 8. badging should have been referred byMiiller and Schlegel to Canton (cf. Jentink, ' Notes Mus. Leyd.' 1883, pp. 126 and 134). Probably they were deceived as to the locality of the collection containing the specimens. 2 The great mass of Mr. Hodgson's Nepal collection is in the Natural History Museum, a few duplicates merely having been given to the Leyden and other Museums, and it is therefore unlikely that if he really obtained this species in Nepal, no specimens should be in our National Museum, and no reference to it made in his published lists of Nepal mammals. 3 M B . Ak. Berl. 1868, p. 448, pi. i. 4 Apud Trouessart. 5 H. M. M a m m . livr. lxvi. 1833. 6 J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 721, 1855. 7 J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 295, 1859. |