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in Krung Kao Province, approximate Lat. 14°55’, where I saw them 
on more than one occasion in the year 1906. Since then some of this 
jungle has been brought under cultivation, possibly all of it. I was 
told that, in the dry season of the year 1906, a “lamang” stag, 
impelled by thirst, actually ran down in the day time into the water in 
a railway borrow pit close to Ban Mi station and market, on the 
railway above Lopburi, and was mobbed by the local people and killed 
” should not be 
by knives and sticks. I see no reason why “ lamang 
found on the west of the Menam Chao Praya in this latitude, as I 
believe there is country on that side suitable for their existence. 
A. J. IRWIN. 
Bangkok, 
15th July, 1914. 
No. IV.—NOTE ON TWO RARE MAMMALS, BERDMORBE’S 
RAT (HAPALOMYS LONGICAUDATUS ) AND 
FEA’S MUNTJAC (CHERVULUS FEZ ). 
Hapalomys longicaudatus. Berdmore’s Rat. In January when 
clearing bamboo jungle to form a camp, a specimen of this rat was 
paralyzed by a blow on the back, and drowned in spirit in order to 
preserve all vermin. Dr. Rankin took it home, and Mr. Oldfield 
Thomas has identified the rat as H. longicaudatus, previously only 
known by specimens from Burma and Tavoy. This rat may be 
known by the flat nail on the hallux, which appears to be partly 
opposable, and by the teeth which, to quote Blanford, ‘‘ differ all from 
other Muridae in having the tubercles of the anterior lower molar 
triserially arranged.” 
The dimensions of the living specimen were: Length 6.4 in. 
Tail 8.4 in. Hind foot 1 in. Ear from orifice 55 in. Vibrissae black, 
1.5 in. long. 
The fur was dense and soft, of a warm brown colour, lighter on 
nose and cheeks and with blackish hairs intermixed on forehead and. 
back. Tail, thinly haired with white at the tip. All lower surtaces 
white from chin to vent. Feet, dirty pink. Found in uninhabited 
bamboo and teak jungle on the Quaa Noi river, N. Lat. 14° 22’. 
