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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NA TIONAL MUSEUM. 
Table of measurements of Mus andamanensis, Mus atratus, and Mus hurms. 
Name. 
Number. 
Se.x. 
Total 
length. 
Head and 
body. 
Tail. 
Hind 
foot. 
Hind foot 
without 
claws. 
Mus andamaneiisii< 
Do 
111821 
111823 
111824 
111826 
111827 
111829 
111952 
111953 
111862 
111863 
111864 
111865 
111866 
111867 
1 111868 
111869 
111803 
111804 
111805 
111806 
111807 
111808 
111809 
111810 
1 111811 
111812 
111813 
111814 
Male 
do.... 
Female... 
Male 
Female... 
Male 
do.... 
Female... 
do.... 
Male 
Female... 
Male 
Mm. 
375 
387 
297 
360 
363 
378 
365 
365 
316 
356 
352 
Mm. 
183 
175 
160 
176 
182 
188 
179 
175 
150 
175 
170 
195 
172 
149 
160 
182 
195 
207 
225 
191 
196 
200 
206 
197 
215 
195 
165 
216 
Mm. 
192 
212 
137 
184 
181 
190 
186 
190 
166 
181 
182 
""im 
173 
182 
190 
210 
203 
210 
191 
202 
202 
198 
188 
215 
193 
180 
200 
Mm. 
39 
38 
37 
37 
37 
37 
37 
37.6 
38 
38 
40 
39 
39 
39 
47 
39 
42 
43 
43 
41 
42.6 
42 
43 
43 
43 
41 
42 
42 
Mm. 
37.6 
36 6 
Do 
36 
Do 
35 6 
Do.. .. 
35 
Do 
36 
Do 
36 
Do 
36 
35 6 
Do.. 
35 
Do 
38 
Do 
37 
Do 
Female... 
Male 
Female... 
Male 
Female... 
Male 
do.... 
Female... 
Male 
Female . . . 
Male 
do.... 
Female... 
do.... 
do.... 
do.... 
352 
322 
342 
372 
405 
410 
435 
382 
398 
402 
404 
385 
430 
388 
345 
416 
36 
Do 
36 
Do 
44 b 
Do 
36 6 
Mus burrus . . . 
40 
Do 
41 
Do 
41 
Do 
39 
Do 
41 
Do 
40 
Do 
41 4 
Do 
41 
Do 
41 4 
Do 
39 
Do 
40 
Do 
40 
1 Type. 
MUS ALEXANDRINUS E. Geoffrey. 
A specimen of the roof rat was taken by Dr. Abl)ott on Nanhauri 
Island, Nicobars, Februaiy 10, 1901. The measurements are as fol- 
lows: Total length, 857 mm.; head and body, 17i^; tail, 185; hind 
foot, 35 (33). This is the first positive record of the species from the 
Nicobars or Andamans. 
Genus PARADOXURUS F. Cuvier. 
PARADOXURUS TYTLERII Tytler. 
1860. Parado.nn-as musanga vel ///yH(.s' (?) Blytii, Journ. As^iat. Soc. Ben<ial, 
XXIX, p. 102. ( Port Blair. ) 
1864. Paradoxurus tytkrii Tytler, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXXIII, p. 188. 
(Andaman Islands.) 
The Andaman pahncivet was first recorded by Blyth in 1860 on the 
basis' of an imperfect skeleton sent to the museum of the Asiatic 
Society by Captain Hodge, then in command of the guard ship Sesostris 
at Port Blair. The specimen was in too imperfect condition to be 
satisfactoril}' identified with any of the known members of the genus. 
Four years later Lieutenant-Colonel Tytler, governor of Port Blair, 
communicated to the Asiatic Society a description of a new species of 
Paradoxurus from the Andaman Islands, by way of introduction to 
which he remarks: 
As the mammalia found on these islands must be of interest, I beg to send you the 
foUowHig description ot a new Paradoxurus which 1 have named after myself. 
