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SCIURTD^. 



ORDER— RODENTIA. 



Two incisors only in each jaw, large, incurved and without roots. 

 Canines none. Molars usually few, varying from 2 to 6 on each side, 

 and separated by an interval from the incisors. Feet with five toes. 

 This Order embraces the squirrels, rats, mice, and hares. 

 Family, SCIURIDiE,— Squirrels. 



5 5 4 4 



Quasi-iucisors smooth. Molars usually ^^, or ^^, 



enamelled and 



furnished with roots. Tail long, bushy. 



Sciurus, Linn. — Premolars ^^-^^ ; molars ^^ ; quasi-incisors 

 brown or orange coloured. Forefeet with only four toes, and a tubercle 

 on the site of the thumb. 



Sciurus palmarum, Gmelin ; BlytJi, Gat. As. Soc. Mns. 339 ; 

 Jerdun, Mam. Ind.-^. 170; Murra.y, Hdblc, Zool., Sfc.^ Sind, p. 91. 

 Gilloree, Sind. — The Common Striped Squirrel. 



Fur dusky greenish grey above, with three yellowish-white stripes 

 along the whole length of the back, and two fainter lines on each side; 

 beneath whitish. Hairs of the tail variegated with reddish and black. 



Length. — 12 — 13 inches. Tail about one-half. 



The only species of tbe genus in Sind. Found also in the Concans, 

 Deccan, Kutch and Guzerat, and throughout the whole Peninsula of India. 



Family, MURID^. 



Incisors compressed or rounded. Molars 3 or 4 on each side. Fore- 

 feet usually with four toes; hind feet with five toes. 



Gerbillus, Ciiv. — Upper incisors grooved. Ears oval. Head 

 lengthened and somewhat pointed. Tarsus and toes elongated. Tail 

 long, hairy, with a tuft at the tip. Ridges of the molars valuable. 

 Gerbillus in^icus. Hard wicTc, Linn. Tr. viii., pi. 7; Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. 1863, xxxii., p. 327; Jerdon, Mammals of 

 hid. p. 184 ; Blanford, Eastern Persia, p. 63. Gerbil- 

 lus Hardwickii, Graii, Cat. Mam. B. M. p. 132; 

 Murray, Edbk., ZouL, Sfc, Sind. — The Jerboa 

 Rat. 



Fur above light fulvous brown, fawn colour, 

 or bright rufous brown, many of the hairs tipped 

 brownish ; beneath whitish. Round the eyes 

 brownish. Hinder parts of the cheeks rufous, 

 paler in front. A white supercilium and a white 

 band below the eye. Ears large^ almost nude 

 within, outside thickly covered with short brown 

 hair. Whiskers long, black above, white below. 

 Tail brown above, with a narrow band below 

 of the same colour, paler on the sides and tipped 

 with long brownish black hairs. MammsQ four 



1, Skull of Gerbillus pairs — two pectoral^ and two inguinal. 



Indicus, nat. size. 



2, Molar teeth of upper 

 jaw,magnilied three diams. 



