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ties in color except that the tail is slightly more gray. The material 

 is not sufficient to show whether it is necessary to recognize the two 

 forms by name. For measurements see ta])le, page 272. 



TUPAIA MALACCANA Anderson. 



1879. Tupoia »K//«rc«na Anderson, Anat. and Zoul. Rewearches, Yunnan, p. 134, 



(Malacca.) 

 1900. Tupaia malaccana Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., II, p. 280, 



August 20, 1900. (Linga.) 

 1902. Tupaia malaccana Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, p. 157, 



June 11, 1902. (Linga and Sinkep. ) 



During his first visit to Linga Island Doctor Abbott obtained two 

 adult males and an adult female of the Malacca treeshrew. A fourth 

 specimen was taken on the same island in 1901. Two were procured 

 on Sinkep in 1901 and four in 1903. On these two islands it is there- 

 fore apparentl}' the commonest member of the genus. The skins 

 show no speciall}' noteworthy variations in color. For measurements 

 see table, page 272. 



Measurements of Tupaia from the Rhio-Linga Archipelago. 



a Type. 



Family COLUGID^.« 



CYNOCEPHALUS '' VOLANS Linnaeus. 



Great Karimon (1), Bintang (6), Kundur(8), Bakong (1), Sebang(l), 

 Penuba (3). 



« See Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIX, p. 41, February 26, 1906. 

 f> 1 768. Cynocephalus Boddaert, Dierhundig, Mengelwerk, II, p. 8, Type, C. volan^ 

 from Ternate. 

 1780. Galropithecus Pallas, "Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., IV, p. 208." 



