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Measurements of Tupaia carimatse. 



Type. 



2 Permanent pm^ and pTO< not in place. 



TUPAIA NICOBARICA (Zelebor). 

 (Synonymy, type-specimens, etc., under the subspecies.) 



Geographic distribution. — Nicobar Islands, apparently confined to 

 the closety adjacent islands of Great and Little Nicobar.^ If it occurs 

 on other islands of the group it is probable that the careful collect- 

 ing of Dr. W. L. Abbott, and Mr. C. B. Kloss m 1901 would have 

 revealed it, as judging by the large number of individuals secured on 

 Great and Little Nicobar it can not be a particularly hard animal to 

 see and secure. 



Diagnosis. — One of the most distinct of all the species of Tupaia, 

 in general size equaling T. glis ferruginea, but tail long and slender, 

 greatly exceeding head and body in length; general color a grizzled 

 yellowish brown, with a distinct blackish area over the middle and 

 lower back, the black extending on to base of tail, but not on thighs or 

 sides; mammae, 1-1 =2; claws on both fore and hind feet, half again 

 as large as the claws of T. glis ferruginea strongly compressed laterally 

 and very sharp; skuU large and angular; central upper incisors 

 strongly developed, greatly exceeding in size the lateral pair. 



Color. — Sides of head, neck, and body, outer side of legs, and feet, 

 and region of back over shoulders, and top of nose with the general 

 color effect of wood brown, produced for the most part by a grizzle 

 of tawny olive and blacldsh brown, entire underparts and inner side 

 of legs generally similar, but often becoming quite light and rather 

 buffy anteriorly; posterior two thirds of back including rump and 

 base of tail, but not extending on thighs or very far down on sides, 

 dark blackish brown; top of head, light blackish brown, the same 

 color spreading down to behind ears and then posteriorly, as an 



1 See Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 792, May 29, 1902. 



