NO. 1402. NE W PHILIPPINE MA MM A LS-MEA RNS. 439 



MUS TAGULAYENSIS, new species. 



TAGULAYAN WHITE-TAILED KAT. 



Ahm^ -hough (Visayans of Baganga). 



ThnlZ-ltoli Tdli-koo^-buiuj (Bagol)os of Tagnlaya). 



T(/jh^.—Adu\t male (skin and skull), Cat. No. ^J5264, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected from sea-level, at Tagnlaya, on the Gulf of Davao at the 

 foot of Mount Apo, southern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, July 15, 

 1904, by Edg-ar A. Mearns. (Orig-inal number, 5732.) 



(JJntraeters. — ^A member of the Mn.s xanthurax group, resendjling 

 3£us everett! Giinther and M. lazoiuettx Thomas, but larger, and other- 

 wise dift'erent from either. Tail white on terminal half, nearly naked, 

 with short, stiff hairs between the verticelli; caudal annuli ten to the 

 centimeter; ears nearh^ naked; pelage of upperparts mixed througli- 

 out with spiu}^ hairs. 



Color. — Upperparts yellowish brown (general effect raw umber), 

 the pelage gray at base except for a mixture of whitish spines, darkest 

 in the vertebral area; sides drab-gray, slightly mixed with raw umber 

 tips to some of the hairs; underparts drab-gray, strongly washed with 

 cinnamon and Isabella color on the throat, chest, inner aspect of lind)s, 

 and genitals; feet bistre above, with grayish-white tufts at base of 

 nails; claws flesh color tipped with horn color; ears dark drab, fleshy 

 within; tail purplish black all round on basal half, whitish on terminal 

 half. 



Skull and teeth. — Resembling those of Mus xantlnirux ^ . E. Gray. 



Speclmeme.miulned.—'Xlx.^o, the type, and Cat. No. 1252f)»), U.S.N.M., 

 from the Baganga River, southeastern Mindanao, April 30, l'J04, col- 

 lected by the author. 



C'raiiial measurements of the ti/jje, an adult male, from Mindanao. 



Measurement. 



No. 125264, 



U.S.N.M., 



type. 



mill. 



Basilar length ( Hense!) 44 



Oeciploiiasal length , 54 



Interi>arieti»l brea<Ith (from outer edge of beaded upper margins) I 17.2 



Length of iiiteniasal suture ' 21 



Greatest breadth of rostrum I 9. (i 



Length of upper toothrovv 10. 1 



