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paler on the sides, beneath white ; eyebrow whitish ; whiskers 

 long, black ; tail blackish towards the tip, which is clad with a 

 tuft of long blackish hairs ; ears large, almost nude. The hairs of 

 the back are light purabrous at the base with fulvous tips, with 

 some thin black hairs intermixed, most conspicuous on the sides 

 and cheeks. 



Length, head and body, 7 inches ; tail 8J ; ear |ths. Another 

 measured, head and body 7 inches ; tail 8 T ^th ; ear T ^ths ; fore- 

 foot -j^ths ; hind foot 2 ; weight 6| oz. 



The jerboa-rat is very abundant in most parts of India, fre- 

 quenting the bare uncultivated plains and sandy downs, where it 

 forms extensive burrows occasionally near the roots of shrubs or 

 bushes, but very generally in the bare plain." 



Nesokia Indica. The Indian Mole Rat. 



This destructive animal is so well known to Indian sportsmen, 

 who constantly come on its well-marked burrows, or the traces 

 where that extraordinary and gipsy-like race, the Wudders have 

 been digging it out that I did not, at first, consider it required a 

 place in these notes on second thoughts, however, the following 

 extracts from Jerdon are given : 



" Fur long and somewhat harsh, brown mixed with fawn, the 

 short fur softer and dusky ; paler beneath and tinged gray ; 

 the color generally being like that of the common rat, but with 

 more fawn or red intermixed and lighter beneath ; head, short and 

 truncated ; ears small, nearly round, covered with a fine down or 

 small hairs ; tail naked, nearly as long as the body without the 

 head ; whiskers long and full ; incisors orange yellow. 



Length, head and body, 7 inches ; tail 6 j head l T Vths ; ear 

 fore-palm T Vths ; hind palm l T %ths. Another measured, head 

 and body 8J ; tail 6 j hind-foot If. 



This large field rat is found throughout India, ranging up to a 

 considerable altitude, above 7,000 feet, and also in Ceylon, but is 

 not hitherto recorded from the east of the Bay of Bengal, 



The kok abounds in the richly cultivated black plains or cotton 



