Mus. 337. 
into oil-bottles, and other wonderful stories of murine sagacity that one 
reads of. Mice are supposed to live from two-and-a-half to three years. 
I had the English albino above mentioned for three. 
No. 360. MUS CRASSIPES. 
The Large-footed Mouse ( Jerdon’s No. 188). 
Hasitat.—Mussoorie and, according to Jerdon, the Neilgherries. 
DESCRIPTION.—This is stated to be like AZ homourus, but the 
difference is well marked in a very much longer tail and much larger 
feet. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 2? inches; tail, ? inch ; hind foot, 2 inch. 
No. 361. Mus SuUBLIMIS. 
HasitTat.—Ladakh, 13,000 feet. 
DESCRIPTION.—Brown above; whitish below; the colours gradually 
blending ; fur soft and long; all except the tips dark slaty grey, the 
terminal portions of the shorter hairs being light brown, and of the 
longer hairs dark brown; upper whiskers black ;- lower white; ears 
oval; feet thinly clad with short light brown hairs; tail with short 
bristly hairs, dusky brown above, whitish below; tail longer than head 
and body. 
SizeE.—Head and body, 2°6 inches; tail, 3°05 ; length of hind foot, 
0°83 inch. 
Mr. Blanford, who named the above species, which was procured 
in the expedition to Yarkand, is doubtful whether it may not be referable 
to the last species. 
No. 362. MUS PACHYCERCUS. 
Hasirat.—Yarkand. 
DeEscripTion.—Sandy brown above ; under-parts white ; fur soft and 
very like JZ. bactrianus ; ears large, rounded, hairy; feet clad above 
with white hair; soles naked ; tail thick, shorter than head and body, 
and thinly clad with white bristles throughout; skin dark above, pale 
below ; incisors deep yellow. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 2°35 inches; tail, 1°9 to 2 inches. 
Mr. Blanford says this is a house mouse. It is figured in Blanford’s 
‘Mammalia of the Second Yarkand Mission.’ 
No. 363. Mus ERYTHRONOTUS. 
HapiTat.—Yarkand, Persia. 
DEscRIPTION.—Rufous, washed with blackish above, white below, 
abruptly separated ; hairs on the back are slaty at the base, then blackish 
and bright ferruginous at the tips, the extreme points being black, except 
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