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appear to be very similar. Their most apparent differences have been 

 pointed out above, and from what is known of the fauna in general 

 of Borneo and Anam, the two animals would certainly be expected 

 to be different; in fact much more different than they appear to be. 

 Both species have probably some peculiarity of habit making them 

 difficult to secure. So far as I Imow only one specimen of Dendro- 

 gale murina has been collected. It is curious that no subsequent 

 specimen has been obtained since the original. As the geographic 

 distribution of the genus is so peculiar and so totally unlike that of 

 any of the related genera or in fact of most genera of mammals there 

 is just a possibility that Dendrogale murina is an example of D.fre- 

 nata wrongly labeled as coming from Pontianak, Borneo. Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott, with much careful collecting in the region of the type-locality, 

 failed to secure it. 



Specimens examined. — None. 



DENDROGALE MELANURA (Thomas). 

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



Geographic distribution. — High mountains of northern Borneo. No 

 specimens recorded below 3,000 feet. See M and N on map on page 

 133. 



Diagnosis. — Distinguished from the other members of the genus by 

 its dark-brown color, lack of face markings, and by its large sharp 

 claws, about 4 mm. in length, fur long and soft; mammae 1-1 = 2. 



Color. — Upper parts of head, neck, and body a fine grizzle of 

 blackish and ochaceous buff, anteriorly, and cinnamon rufous, pos- 

 teriorly and at base of tail, the darker color in excess; bases of hairs 

 slate black; outerside of legs similar to adjacent parts of body; feet 

 dark brownish; underparts ochraceous with slate bases of hairs show- 

 ing through; inner side of legs similar to adjacent underparts; im- 

 mediately above and below eye, a short ochraceous line, both togetlier 

 appearing like an eye ring with indistinct corners; tail a mixture of 

 black or blackish, and cinnamon rufous with the black very prominent 

 when viewed from above; tail, seen below, with the short appressed 

 hairs in middle line black or brownish black, bordered on either side 

 by other short hairs with more or less evident cinnamon rufous bases. 



SJcull and teeth. — These are practically indistinguishable from those 

 of Dendrogale frenata, except that the braincase is slightly more 

 inflated and arched. 



Subspecies. — Two races of Dendrogale melanura are known, one from 

 Mount Dulit and the other from Mount Kina Balu, neither of them 

 very highly differentiated. 



