346 MamMALIA OF INDIA. 
another specimen, female: 5% inches; tail, 7} inches; sole, 13 inch; 
ears posteriorly, 14 inch. 
Specimens of adult male and female with a young one were forwarded 
to the Asiatic Society’s Museum by Major Berdmore. 
We have now come to the end of the purely murine group as far as 
they exist within the limits assigned to these investigations. I ought 
perhaps to give some short notices of the following specimens discovered 
in Thibet by the Abbé David, and described by Professor Milne-Edwards 
in his ‘ Recherches sur les Mammiferes.’ 
No. 381. Mus OUANG-THOMA. 
The Kiangsi Rat. 
Hapirat.—Kiangsi in Thibet. 
DeEscrIPTION.—A tawny grey above, mixed with long hairs, tipped 
- with brown, greyish below ; between the fore-paws a crescent of pure 
white, which is a distinguishing mark of the species. 
S1zE.—A little less than Jus rattus, which is about seven inches long ; 
tail an inch longer. 
This rat Professor Milne-Edwards describes from a single specimen ; 
it is apparently rare, and was named after the Abbé David’s Chinese 
servant.—‘ Recherches sur les Mammiferes, p. 290. 
No. 382. MUuS FLAVIPECTUS. 
The Yellow-breasted Rat. 
Hapitat.—Moupin ; Thibet. 
Description. — Reddish-brown; chin greyish; throat and chest 
tawny, mixed with grey ; belly and inside of limbs yellowish-grey ; ears 
large, nearly naked; incisors deep yellow; tail brown, covered with 
short hairs. 
S1zE.—About 7? inches ; tail, 6} inches.—‘ Mammiftres,’ p. 289. 
No. 383. MUS GRISEIPECTUS. 
The Grey-breasted Rat. 
Hapitrat.—Moupin ; Thibet. 
DeEscRIPTION.—Brown above ; the under-parts of a clear grey. 
S1ze.—About the same as the last, but with a somewhat shorter tail.— 
‘“Mammiféres,’ p. 290. 
