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Show 344 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS OX [Nov. 28, 21. Meles a n a k u m a Temm. c?. 312, 313. ? . 295. Jinrio, Tokushima Ken, Shikoku. 500'. 8 . 403, 404. Takamori, Kumamoto, Kiushiu. " Not uncommon. The peasants secure them by smoking them out of their holes."-M.P.A. 22. P e t a u r is t a leuco g en y s Temm. 8 . 231, 234,240. $ . 253. Washikaguchi, Nara Ken, Hondo. 8 • 477. $ . 479, 480, 481. Mitai, Miyasaki, Kiushiu. The specimens from Kiushiu are nearly topotypical, but are less similar to the Nagasaki skin which I provisionally took as typical when recently writing on the subject, than to the form from Shikoku which I described as P. I. tosce*. Further material from different localities will be needed before the races of this interesting and variable animal can be satisfactorily understood. " The large Flying Squirrel is well-known in this region (Washikaguchi), and is probably as plentiful as anywhere in Japan. It is found in the large Cryptomerias and other trees which grow about some of the temples and shrines and are never-cut. The specimens were all purchased from peasants, who brought them to me. The people say that this animal possesses great control over its ‘ flight,' being able to turn almost at right angles while in mid-air. Japanese literary ‘ Musasabi,' but called ‘ Bandari ' in this locality."-M. P. A. " At Mitai, Kiushiu, they lived in numbers in a grove of Cryptomerias surrounding a temple. On the evening of April 21 they appeared about 7.30, when darkness was coming on. The first I saw alighted noiselessly on a trunk near me and immediately ascended rapidly among the branches. Another I saw ‘ fly ' from near the top of a Cryptomeria, make almost a half-circle past a cluster of trees, and alight some 40 ft. from the ground on another Cryptomeria, The ‘ flight ' is swift, but we had time to notice that the tail is held nearly straight out behind."-M. P. A. 23. S ciu ro p t er u s momonga amy'g d a l i f , subsp. n . 8 • 257,259. ? . 258,260, 261, 262. Washikaguchi, Nara Ken, Southern Central Hondo. The Flying Squirrel received by the British Museum in 1844 from the agent of the Leyden Museum as representing Temminck's " Pteromys momonga " is so much smaller than these examples that there is no doubt that the two should bear different names. But it is probable that both are included in Temminck's description, in which case one or other of them must be selected as typical of his species. I would therefore propose to select the smaller one, of which he figured the skull, even though he himself * Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) xv. p. 488 (1905). f Dr. Rein states that the Japanese name for this animal, Momodori, means " peach-bird." |