418 BURMA, ITS PKOl'LE AND PRODVCTIOSS. 



in aspect and habits tn Rhlzomijn, -which !Blyth, who lias studied hotli animals during 

 life, declares his inabilit)- to sec. It is not certain if this animal ranges into Burma, 

 though lilyth remarked on the prohahility of its occurrence in the dry region of the 

 Upper Irrawaddy, and I referred to it a pair taken beneath my house at Toung-ngoo, 

 which measured— Male, head and body 9-75; tail 7-25; total 17 inches. Female, 

 8-5 and G ; total 14-5. Blyth remarks he has never seen the tail more than 5-5 inches, 

 but as the animals were large and old ones, they could not have been ' Bandicoots,' 

 and there is no other species which it resembles. The female above noted had 

 besides 16 mammas. 



M. n.vxmcooTA, Bechstein. 

 J\[. gignnleus, Hardwicke. 

 M. peir/ial (Pennant), Shaw. 

 J/, nialdbiin'ciin, (Pennant), Shaw. 



3r. nnnoriraguf:, IIodgMsn (Ann. Jiag. N. H. 184.3, p. 20G). 

 M. {Xeotnmn) glganteun, Elliot (Mad. Jour. Lit. Soe. 1839, p. 209). 

 M. sKfifer, Horsf. (uec apud Cantor). 



The ' bandicoot ' or pig-rat. Myae-ky wet. 



The occurrence of this rat in Burma rests on Mason's authority, who gives the 

 above vernacular name for it, but no details, and as it occurs in Siam and the Malayan 

 Peninsula, it may not improbably occur in Burma likewise. Hardwicke describes a 

 female as measuring — Head and body IS'o; tail lo'O; total 26-5 inches, and weight 

 21bs. 1 1 .^oz. and the males attain 3lbs. 



Good Burmese specimens of both the above species arc wanted to establish 

 correctly their range and distribution. 



M. DECU5IANUS, Pallas. 



M. Korvegiciis, Batfon. 



M. decumanoides, Hodg. apud Gray (nee Wateihouse, nee Horsfield). 



M. brunnem, Hodg. Gray (ncc Blyth). 

 The common brown rat. 



Colour above dusky, cinereous brown with a yellow tinge. The short hairs slaty 

 at base with yellow tips, the longer hairs blackish. Below dirty pale ashy. 

 Head and body 10-.5 inches; tail 8-25; total 18-75. 

 Introduced at the ports by ships, whence it has spread into the interior. 



M. Andamanensis, Blyth (J. A. S. B. xxi.^:. j). 103). 



21. Nicoharicus, Scherzer? (Zool. Notara Exp.). 



M. setifer, Horsf. (apud Cantor). 

 Colour and cars much as in M. decumanu.i. but the fur darker on the back and 

 paler on the sides ; the long piles being flattened and spinous. 

 Head and body 8 inches ; tail 8 ; total 1 (! inches. 

 The indigenous rat of the Andaman Islands. 



M. CAUDATioR, Hodgson. 

 31. cumamomeus, Blyth. 



Colour bright cinnamon, with inconspicuous black tips, and below white, the 

 two colours abrujitly divided. 



Length — head "and body G; tail 7-75; total 13-75 inches. 

 Inhabits the Sittoung Valley. (Shwe-gycen.) 



M. TsoiinsruLUs, Blyth (Jour. As. Soc. B. xxviii. p. 294). 

 M. rufencena (Auctorum, of Burma). 

 M. Berdmorei, Blyth? (Jour. As. Soc. B. xx. p. 173). 



Colour dark grey, scarcely rusty, with much black intermixed. Fur coarse anil 

 hispid. Feet and belly white. Rodential tusks yellow. Tail thinly clad. Mamma) 12. 

 Inhabits Pegu and Tenasserim. 

 A large male from Rangoon measured — 

 Head and body 7-20; tail 720; total 14-40 inches. 



