90 MAMMALIA. 



Arvicola stracheyi. 



Arvicola stracheyi, Thomas Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), vi, p. 332 (1880); 

 Blanford J. A. S. B., 1, p. 98, pi. i, fig. c. 



Distribution. — The type specimen was procured by General 

 Strachey in the Kumaon, and the specimen catalogued below was 

 procured in the Kangra district in the Punjab Himalayas ; no 

 other specimen has been recorded. 



The only specimen in the collection, which was obtained from 

 the stomach of a snake (Halys himalayanus) is a young one as 

 is proved by the teeth ; it agrees best with the description given 

 of A. stracheyi but differs even from this in certain particulars ; the 

 ventral surface is brown like the dorsal surface, whereas in A. 

 stracheyi the ventral surface is said to be gray ; the ears are but 

 sparsely covered with hair except at their tips where the hair 

 certainly is thicker ; the tail is also the same colour as the body ; 

 with these exceptions ihe specimen is in entire harmony with the 

 description of A. stracheyi given by Blanford (/. c.) ; there does not 

 therefore seem to be any justification for describing a new species. 



The following are the measurements : — head and body, yz ; tail, 

 77; tarsus, -55. 



There are only five tarsal pads as is A. wynnei, one at the base 

 of each toe and one proximal one on the inner side, at the edge 

 of the hairs which cover the posterior portion of the tarsus. 



a. Ale. skull. $ Dharmsala, Himalayas, H. Mostyn Clark. 



1 6,000 ft. 



Arvicola wynnei. 



Arvicola wynnei, Blanford J. A. S.B., xlix, p. 244(1880); id. y. A. S. B., I, 



p. 99, pi. i, fig. b. 

 Arvicola roylei, apud Blyth J.A.S. B., xxxii, p. 89 (1863) ; id. Cat. no. 410, 



p. 125. 



Distribution. — Only known with certainty from Murree in the 

 North-West Himalayas, and from Sonemarg in Kashmir. 



The specimen below is said in Blyth's Catalogue to have come 

 from Pind Dadun Khan in the Punjab ; a reference, however, to 

 J, A. S. B., xxxii, p. 89, shows that the specimen came from ihe 

 "Bala" Pass, probably the same as the Babeh Pass in Spiti ; 

 this specimen was identified by Blyth with A. roylei of Gray ; the 

 skull on examination, however, shows that it is certainly not A. 

 roylei, but one of<those forms in which the posterior upper molar 

 possesses two, not three, internal angles, and as the thumb is 

 distinctly clawed, it must be identified raiher with A. wynnei than 

 with A. stracheyi or A. stoliczkana which are the other two forms in 

 which the posterior upper molar has two internal angles. 



a. Skin, skull " Bala Pass" W. Theobald (1853), A.S.B. 



