NEW rillLIPPINE MAMMALS— MEARNS. 



443 



with flattened, channelled spines; caudal annuli, eight to the centi- 

 meter, at middle of tail. 



Color. — General color of upperparts cinnamon-russet, more grayish 

 brown on the head, everywhere coarsely mixed with black; underparts 

 whitish drab-gray, washed with cinnamon in the pectoral region and 

 along the sides; fore and hind feet whitish drab, usually with a 

 darker area over the middle metatarsals — sometimas as dark as mouse 

 gra}^ Tail concolor, mouse gray or browner. Young, dral>gray 

 above, whitish smoke gra}^ below. 



Skull and teeth. — Braincase wide and arched; temporal fossa 

 ridged; audital bulla' high and rounded. Teeth not peculiar. 



Cranial measiiremcids of the tape, an adult male, from Todai/a, Mhahmao. 



Measurement. 



No. 125274, 



U.S.N.M., 

 type. 



Basilar length { Hensel ) 



Occipito-nasal length 



Interparietal breadth (from outer edge of beaded upper margins) 



Length of interniisal suture 



Greatest breadth of rostrum 



Length of upper toothrow 



47.5 

 16 

 17 

 9 



External measurenients of tJte tiipe, an adult male, from Todaija, and- of ad alt female from 



Pantar, Mindanao. 



Measurement (from fresh specimens). 



No. 125274, 



U.S.N.M., 



type. 



No. 123292, 



U.S.N.M. 



Length 



Tail to end of vertebra' 

 Tail to end of hairs . . . 



Hind foot 



Head - — 



Ear above crown 



Ear above notch 



410 

 207 

 211 

 40 

 53 

 18 

 24 



Specimens examined.- — Ten: three from sea-level, at Davao, Min- 

 danao; five from Pantar, Mindanao (altitude 1,907 feet); and two from 

 Todaya (altitude 4,000 feet), on Mount Apo, Mindanao. 



MUS ZAMBOANGiE, new species. 

 ZAMBOANGA SPINY-HAIRED RAT. 



%>.'.— Adult male (skin and skull), Cat. No. 135279, U.S.N.M. 

 Collected at Zamboanga, western Mindanao, Philippine Islands, Janu- 

 ary 20, 1904, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, .5753.) 



Characters. — A member of the r attus- ale, randr inns group. Pelage 

 of upperparts coarse and spiny, of feet and underparts short, tine, 

 and soft, whiskers long, reaching the shoulders; caudal annuli, 11 to 

 the centimeter, on middle of tail; tail concolor, longer than head and 

 body; ears medium-sized, nearly naked except on edges. 



