NO. 1976. 



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TUPAIA CHINENSIS Anderson. 



1879. Tupaia chinensis Anderson, Zool. Res. West. Yunnan, p. 129, pi. 7, figs. 

 8 and 9. 



Type-locality. — Ponsee, Kakhyen Hills, 3,185 feet, and Muangia, 

 Sanda Valley, 2,400 feet, western Yunnan, China. 



Tyi^e-syecimens. — Two specimens of this species were evidently 

 secured by Dr. Anderson, No. 204a, adolescent male in alcohol, and 

 its skull, Ponsee, and No. 204& and c, skin of an adult and its 

 skull, Muangia, in the Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, Part I, 1881, page 155. So far as I am aware these speci- 

 mens are still in Calcutta. They are not in London at the British 

 Museum, and I have not seen them. Cranial measurements of both 

 are given in the original account, external measurements of one of 

 them, and illustrations of the skull, probably of the specimen of which 

 the external measurements are given (determined by comparing some 

 of the figures given with the actual measurements of the illustration). 

 The specimen whose skull is illustrated and whose external measure- 

 ments are given should be considered the type. As to whether it is the 

 Ponsee or the Muangia specimen it is impossible to say, though if both 

 specimens are still intact a careful examination of them and the meas- 

 urements and illustrations would probably disclose which specimen is 

 the type and which of the two localities is the exact type-locality. 



Geograjphic distribution. — TujJaia chinensis, as here understood, 

 ranges from northern Tenasserim and Burma northward into China as 

 far as Mitschi (or Meechee) (?) and from Nepal, on the west, as far east 

 as Mongtsze and Tonkin, China. See No. 1 on map on page 75. 



