74 MAMMALIA. 



Mus bactrianus. 



Mus bactrianus, ^/j/if/j 5^. A. S. B., xv, p. 140 (1846); id. y. A. S. B., 



xxxii, p. 347; id. y. .^. 5. 5., xxxiv, p. 193; Jerdon Mamm., p. 205 ; 



Blanford Persia, p. 56, pi. v, fig. 2; id. J. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 324; 



Danford and Alston P. Z. 5"., 1880, p. 61 ; Scully Ann. Mag. N. 



H- (5)» viii, p. 228; Thomas P. Z. S., 1881, p. 546; Murray Zool. 



Sind., p. 4j ; Scully y. A. S. B., Ivi, p. 72; Radde Zool. f. B-., iv, p. 



1033. 

 Mus gerbillinus, 5/j/M J. A. S. 5., xxii, p. 410 (1853); id. Cat. no. 382, 



p. 119. 

 Mus theobaldi, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxii, p. 583 (1853). 



Disirihuiion. — The Punjab and Sind, extending northwards to 

 the Himalayas, at Simla and to Ladak, and westward through 

 Afghanistan and Baluchistan to the Euphrates, Palestine and 

 Egypt. 



i'his species seems to replace the last in desert and dry coun- 

 tries, it resembles it in every particular except in its very pale colour 

 and distinctly white ventral surface. 



