314 Mr. Bly th's Remarks upon specimens of Mammalia and Birds 



jackal for a wolf as Mr. Gray would mistake a leopard for a royal 

 tiger ! — Canis corsac, Blyth, is quoted as a synonym of Vulpes ben- 

 galensis. I merely followed Mr. Ogilby in so referring it. Vide 

 ■ Mammalogy of the Himalaya ' in Royle's ■ Botany,' &c. 



P. 15. Helarctos malayanus (yerus), if it does not occur in the 

 Nepal Terai, assuredly does in Assam, Arracan, the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces and Malayan peninsula. I have had two living specimens 

 from Assam ; and have likewise seen the Ursus tibetanus (erroneously 

 so named) alive. 



P. 16. Sorexpygmteus, Hodgson. Is not this S. Perrotellii, Guerin ? 

 It occurs in the Neilgherries as well as in the Himalaya, and has even 

 been obtained in a cellar in Madras. 



P. 20. Lepus orientalis, Brown, 1836, surely takes precedence of 

 L. macrotis, Hodgson, 1840; but the species was rightly referred by 

 Mr. Ogilby to L. rufocaudatus, Is. GeofFroy. 



P. 22. Pteromys nobilis, Gray, v. chrysothrix, Hodgson, is merely 

 an occasional variety of Pt. nobilis. 



Sciurus macruroides, Hodgson (1841, not described) is described 

 by M'Clelland as Sc. giganteus in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 151, so 

 that if really different from Sc. bicolor (verus), which I doubt exceed- 

 ingly, the latter name should have the preference, only that Raffles 

 had long previously bestowed the name affinis on a pale variety of the 

 same species since termed Sc. aureiventris by Is. GeofFroy. Should it 

 not therefore (i. e. the dark or ordinarily coloured variety) in this 

 case rank as Sc. affinis ? albeit Raffles alludes evidently to this dark 

 race by the name Sc. maximus of Schreber. With regard to the 

 name bicolor, it is certain that Sparrman founded it upon a Javan 

 specimen ; and the question therefore turns upon the fact whether 

 the dark Malacca race inhabits Java ? Schinz correctly describes the 

 latter, and gives Java, Sumatra and Borneo as the habitats ; but 

 Mr. Gray, assuming (it would seem) the contrary, refers bicolor to 

 javensis, Schreber, and adopts macruroides, Hodgson, for the common 

 dark race abundant from the S. E. Himalaya and Assam, southward 

 to the Straits of Malacca at least, if not further. These great Squir- 

 rels are extremely puzzling, more especially in the Malay countries. 

 On the continent I know three well-marked races, viz. the dark one 

 already noticed with its pale Malayan variety, the purpureas of the 

 Indian peninsula, and macrourus (verus) of Travancore and Ceylon, 

 of which last I am now publishing a coloured figure. 



P. 29. Ovis burrhel, Blyth, is now acknowledged by Mr. Hodgson 

 to be distinct from O. nahoor. And I consider O. ammonoides, Hodg- 

 son, to be identical with O. ammon, Pallas : if distinct, it should bear 

 the name 0. Hodgsonii, nobis. O. Vignei, nobis, placed as a syno- 

 nym of 0. ammonoides by Mr. Gray, is a widely different species, 

 appertaining to quite a different section of the group of Wild Sheep. 

 Mr. Gray might as well identify Cervus dama with C. hippelaphus ! 



P. 32. The Bara Sing' ha of India (or "twelve-antlered" Stag) is 

 the Cervus Duvaucelei, not C. Wallichii, which has but a dubious 

 claim to be regarded as an Indian animal, though I suspect that to 

 it must be referred the great truly elaphine Stag of Kashmir. 



