MUS. 



6i 



0. Larger, head and body, 4 to 5 inches; hind-foot, I'o; gene- 

 rally five pads on hind foot ; mammae 8 in number. 



M. mettada, p. 76. 



0? Smaller, head and body, 3 to 4 inches; hind-foot 70 ; gene- 

 rally four pads on hind-foot; mammae 6 in number. 



M. gleadowi, p. 'jt. 



Mus. decumanus. 



Mus decumanus, Pallas Nov. Spec. Quad, e Glir., p. 91 (1778) ; Elliot 

 Madr. Journ., x, p. 212; Cantor J. A. S. B., xv, p. 254; Gray Cat. 

 Hodgs. Coll., 1st ed., p. 17; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 140; Kelaart 

 Prodr. Faun. Zeylan., p. 59; Blyth J.A.S. B., xxxii, p. 335; id. Cat. no, 

 361, p 113 ; Jerdon Mamm., p. 195 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B., xli, p. 228 ; 

 Blanford Persia, p. 53 ; Blyth J. A. S. B., x!iv, Burma List, p. 39 ; 

 Thomas P. Z. S., 1881, p. 532 ; Murray Zool. Sind, p. 46 ; Radde Zool. 

 J. B., iv, p. 1033. 

 Mus decumanoides, Hodgson, J. A. S. B., x, p. 915 (1841) [pt.] 

 Mus hrnnneus, Hodgson Ann. Mag, N. H., xv, p. 266 (1845); Horsfield 

 Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 142 ; Blyth J, A. S. B., xxxiv, p. 193 ; Jerdon, Mamm., 

 p. 198. [pt.]. 



The Norway or Brown Rat ; Canarese, Manei ilei j Hind., 

 Chooha or Ghurka chooha ; Malay, Tikus ; Singalese, Gaval 

 Meeyo ; Bengalee, Demsa indur. 



Distribution. — This almost universally distributed rat has not 

 apparently made its way very far from the coast as yet. With the 

 exception of some from Samagooting in Assam, and the identifi- 

 cation of these seems a little doubtful, all our specimens are 

 from sea coast towns 



