NO. 1271. ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR MAMMALS— MILLER. 773 
Without doubt this animal is the same as that previously mentioned 
by BIj'th. Apparently Blanford is the only other author who has 
dealt with the animal. He refers it to Paradoxurus grayl^ with the 
observation that it is smaller than the continental form.' 
Dr. Abl)ott secured one specimen, a fully adult male with somewhat 
worn teeth. It was trapped in the forest on the shore of MacPherson 
Strait, South Andaman Island, rlanuary 17, 1901. Man}' tracks were 
seen in the sand of the neighboring beach. The measurements of this 
individual are as follows: Total length, 1,040 mm.; head and bod}^, 
550; tail, -400; hind foot (without claws), 83; ear from meatus, 42; ear 
from crown, 31; width of ear, 30. Skull: Greatest length, 108; 
basal length, 103; l)asilar length, 100; occipito-nasal length (median), 
95; length of nasals (median), 23; length of bony palate (median), 53; 
width of palate between anterior premolars, 14; width between pos- 
terior molars, 29; zygomatic breadth, 61; least interobital breadth, 
21; distance between anterior extremities of audital bullae, 16.6; width 
of braincase above roots of zygomata, 33.6; mandible, 82; maxillary 
toothrow (exclusive of incisors), 39; mandibular toothrow (exclusive 
of incisors), 44. 
Genus FELIS Linnaeus. 
FELIS CHAUS Gueldenstaedt. 
1863. Fells cJiaus Blyth, Appendix to Mouat's Adventures and Researches 
among the Andaman Islanders, p. 351. 
That a small 3'ellowish brown cat occurs on South Andaman Island 
seems fairly well established by the note of Colonel Ty tier, quoted by 
Blyth in the appendix to Mouat's Adventures and Researches. No 
specimen of the animal has ever been examined, as T\^tler merely saw 
a living individual at a distance of some 150 3"ards, and the skull found 
bj' Dr. Mouat on the occasion of his visit to the island was subsequently 
lost. Blyth suggests that the animal is probably Felis chcvus^ l)ut this 
is purely a matter of conjecture. 
Genus TUPAIA Raffles. 
TUPAIA NICOBARICA NICOBARICA (Zelebor). 
ISfU. Vladohales nicobaricus Fitzinger, Sitzungsl)er. math.-naturwissensch. CI. 
Kais. Akad. Wissensch., Wien, XLII (1860), p. 392 {nom en nudum). 
1 869. Cladohates nicobaricuR Zelebor, Reise der osterreich. Fregatte Novara, Zool. , 
I (Wirbelthiere), 1, Mamm., p. 17. (Great Nicobar.) 
1879. Tapani nirobaricn Anderson, Anat. and Zool. Researches, Western Yun- 
nan (1878), p. 136. 
Unless the "large squirrel" observed by Capt. Harold Lewis in 
1846^ may have been this species, the Nicobar treeshrevv escaped notice 
'Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885, ]). 805. The Fauna of British India, I, Mamm., 
p. 11:^, 1888. 
Mourn Asiat. Soo. Bengal, XV, p. 367. 
