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" Nos. 143 and 200. Caught (respectively) in Highbury House, Ootaca- 

 mund, and in my bedroom at the Blue Mountain Hotel, Kotagiri. 



" Nos. 208 and 209. Mammse five pairs, three pectoral, two inguinal." 

 —P. G. 



(20) Leggada famula, Bonh. 



The Nilffiri Wild Mouse. 

 1899. Mus famulus, Bonhote. Journ., B. N. H. S., Vol. XII, p. 99. 

 Ootacamund, 5 1. 

 Coonoor, S 1. 



The re-taking, after an interval of over twenty years, of Lec/gada famula 

 hitherto known only by the type in the British Museum, is, as noted in our 

 Introduction, of much interest in the history of Indian mammalogy. The 

 two specimens collected by Captain Gosse agree absolutely with the type 

 and with Bonhote's description and plate. They show the outstanding 

 character of long, soft, dense fur. The colour above is a very dark brown 

 sprinkled with a coppery tinge, and hardly lighter below, with a wash of 

 ochraceous, having no very sharp line of demarcation from the dorsal 

 colour. The hands and feet are dark brown, and the tail coloured like the 

 back, but slightly lighter below. Captain Gosse's record, printed below, of 

 the number of mammse of the female adds to our knowledge of the species, 

 as the type specimen is presumably a male. 



Mr. Thomas, in his recent revision of the Indian mice (J. B. N. H. S., 

 Vol. XXVI, p. 417, 1919), has revived Leggada for the longer-muzzled form, 

 essentially Jungle mice, into which group this species naturally falls. 



" No. 127. Caught in evergreen jungle in glen below Hatherly Cottage. 

 Mammpe three pairs, two inguinal, one axillary." — P. G. 



(21) Leggada booduga. Gray. 



The Indian Wild Mouse, 

 (Synonymy in No. 1.) 

 Ootacamund, ? 1. 

 Kotagiri, S 1, ? 1. 

 Coonoor, c? 2. 

 " No. 129. From clearing in evergreen jungle." — P. G. 



(22) Leggadilla grahami, Ryl. 

 The Lesser Coorg Leggad. 

 (Synonymy in No. 11.) 

 Kotagiri, S 1- 



(23) Rattus kattus wboughtoni, Hint. 



The Nilgiri Tree- Rat. 



1919. Rattus rattus ivroughtoni, Hinton. Journ,, B. N. H. S., Vol.XXVI., 

 p. 384. 



Ootacamund, J 1, $ 5. 



Kotagiri, S 1 



Mr. Hinton has, in the monograph above referred to, given the name of 

 ivroughtoni to the white-bellied wild rats of the Nilgiris. 



