48 Records of the Indian Museum. \Voh. Ill, 



Gonda. 



I ' We have received eighteen rats in alcohol from the Civil Surgeon 

 of Gonda. .Sixteen of these are of the brown, dark-bellied type of 

 Mus r alius, and show no peculiarities ; two are typical examples 

 of Gunomys bengalensis, probably from the fields. 



Ghazipur. 



Mr. R. S. Misrahas sent the measurements, skins and skulls of 

 seven rats. All are brown specimens of Mus rattus ; two of them 

 have white bellies, the others being of the common dark-bellied 

 type. 



Azamgarh. 



The Civil vSurgeon of this place has sent four brown, dark- 

 bellied Mus rattus. 



Saharanpur. 



Mr. K. V. Amin has sent two house rats and a shrew. The rats 

 are large examples of the common brown, dark-bellied type of Mus 

 rattus. Their lengths are 193 and 200 mm. 



Moradabad. 



Lt.-Col. M. Cadell has sent four specimens of Mus rattus ; they 

 are of the brown, dark-bellied type. Their lengths are 162, 181, 

 185, 190. Their proportions are normal. 



Bulandshahr. 



Captain K. J. Walton has sent five brown, dark-bellied Mus 

 rattus of ordinar}^ size and proportions. 



Lucknow, Rai Bareili, Dehra Dun, Agra. 



Mr. P. Stebbing has sent four rats from Dehra Dun, Mr. R. A. 

 Hodgart has obtained ten from Lucknow and one from Agra, and 

 there are four from Rai Bareili sent by an unknown correspondent. 

 These nineteen rats closely resemble one another ; they are all of the 

 common yellowish brown, dark-bellied tj-pe of Mus rattus obtained 

 from Allahabad, Cawnpore and many other places. 



Central India and the Central Provinces. 



Now gong. 



Captain J. Skinner has sent the large munber of 115 rats with 

 the measurements of each. Of these eighty-one are Mus rattus, one 

 is Mus mettada, and the remainder are Gerbillus indicus. The 

 lengths of the house rats are shown in the diagram, text-fig. 6; 

 they vary from 150 to 210 mm., those of 180 and 185 being iti the 



