76 MAMMALIA. 



a. Skin Kashgar, 14-2-74 F. Stoliczka. 



(Biddulph). 

 6-^. 4 Skins, Pan jah, Wakhan, 4-74 F. Stoliczka. 



2 skulls. 

 f-g. 2 Skins, Gilgit J. Biddulph. 



I skull. 

 h. Skin, skull Hunza J. Biddulph. 



juv. 

 j-k. 2 Skins, Chitral, 10-85, 5.000 ft. G. M. Giles. 



2 skulls. 

 /. Skin, skull Gilgit, 1-86, 6,000 ft. G.M.Giles. 

 TO. Skin $ ,, 8-79 J. Scully. 



n. Skin „ 2-79 J. Scully. 



o-p. 2 Ale, ^ Kohrud N. of Ispahan W. T. Blanford. 

 I skull. 



[Types of Mus erythronotus, Bla nford.] 

 q. Ale ? Gilgit J. Scully. 



Mus nitulidus. 



Mus nitulidus, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 294 (1859); id. J. A. S. B., xxxii, 

 P 347 i '<!• ^^^- "°' 3^'> P- ^'9i '^- 7- ^- ^- -^v xliv, Burma List, p. 40 ; 

 Thomas P. Z 5., 1881, p. 550. 



Distribution. — District of Shwegyin in Burma and Sikkim, and 

 probably the intervening country. 



The type of this species is missing ; it perhaps disappeared during 

 the transference of the Asiatic Society's collections to the present 

 Museum ; it is therefore impossible ever to be certain as to whether 

 Thomas' identification of this species is correct or not. The 

 following specimens agree fairly well with Thomas' description : — 



Mus mettada. 



Golunda meltada, Gray Charlesw., Mag. N. H., i., p. 586 (1837) ; Horsfield 

 Cat. E. I. Mus., p. 144 ; Blyth J. A. S. 5., xxxii, p. 352 ; Jerdon Mamm., 

 p. 213. 



Mus lanuginosus, Elliot Madras Journ., x, p. 212 (1839). 



Mus mettada, Blanford J. A. S. B., xlvi, p. 290, pi. i, figs. 1-9 (1877) ; 

 Thomas P. Z. S., 1881, p. 550; Murray Zool. Sind, p. 47. 



Distribution. — This species seems to be confined to the western 

 and southern parts of India, extending eastward as far as the 

 North-West Provinces only. 



a-c. 3 Ale, 2 skulls Etawah dist., N.-W. P. A. Anderson. 

 ^ 2 ? 



