376 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
fur very soft, about o'9 inch long in the middle of the back; glossy 
leaden black at the base and for about two-thirds of its length, very pale 
ashy grey towards the end; the extreme tips of many hairs dark brown, 
and on the back the tips of all the hairs are brownish; the sides are 
almost pure light ashy ; rump still paler; feet white ; hair on the face 
long, light brown on the forehead, greyer on the nose, pure grey on the 
sides of the head. A few of the upper whiskers black, the rest white ; 
ears large round with rather thin white hairs inside, very short hairs 
close to the margin, white outside, black inside, outer surface covered 
with whitish hairs, which become long near the base of the ear. (See 
- Blanford’s ‘Scientific Results, Second Yarkand Mission,’ p. 77, and 
plate vii. fig. 1.) 
S1zE.—About 7 inches. 
No. 424. LAGOMYS RUFESCENS. 
The Red Ptka. 
Hapsitat.—Afghanistan, Persia. 
DESCRIPTION.—Pale sandy red, darker on the top of the head, the 
shoulders and fore part of back ; two large patches behind the ears ; the 
feet and the under-parts are pale buff yellow; ears moderately large, 
subovate and well clad, rusty yellow, paler on the under part ; whiskers 
very long, brown, a few brownish white ; toe-pads blackish. 
Size.—About 8 inches. 
This species has been found in the rocky hills of Cabul. Zagomys 
Ffodgsonii, from Lahoul, Ladakh and Kulu, is considered to be the same 
as the above, and L. Mi tpalensis, described by Waterhouse, as synony- 
mous with Z. Foyle. 
Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were 
lumped together under the order UNncutata, or hoofed animals, sub- 
divided by Cuvier into Pachydermata, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, 
and Ruminantia, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor 
the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so 
entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them 
into three distinct orders—-Proboscidea, Hyracoidea and Ungulata, which 
classification I here adopt. 
