A CELEBIAN MOUSE RENAMED. 



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NOTE III. 

 A CELEBIAN MOUSE RENAMED, 



BY 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



Nov. 1879. 



After having examined Gray's type of Acanthomys leu- 

 copus ^) and compared that animal with my description of 

 Mus leucopus ^) , Alston comes to the conclusion ^) , "that 

 I have been misled by Gray's very insufficient description". 

 I am the first to agree with Alston in this statement. I 

 am much indebted to Mr. Alston for his minute descrip- 

 tion of the Mus in question , s. n. Mus terrae-reginae. 



If I had known that Gray's leucopus has the tail shor- 

 ter than head and body and the fur above dark reddish- 

 and not greyish-hvo-wn , I should certainly not have made 

 a mistake in confounding these two distinct species. But 

 I believe it quite impossible to recognize species if they 

 are described so incompletely and inexactly as is the case 

 with the greater part of Gray's descriptions. 



So I am now in the painful necessity to rebaptize my 

 Celebian Mouse and Mr. S. C. J. W. van Musschenbroek 

 proposes to give it the specific name of heccarii (for des- 

 cription see Notes from the Leyden Museum , 1879 , p. 8). 



However I cannot conceive why the specific identity 



1) P. Z. S. L. 1867. p. 598. 



2) Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1879. p. 8. 



3) P. Z. S. L. 1879. p. f)45. 



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