210 TTJPAIIDJE. 



102. Tnpaia ferrnginea. The Malay Tree-Shrew. 

 Tupaia ferrugmea, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii, p. 256 (1822) ; Cantor, 



J. A. S. B. xv, p. 188 ; Horsf. Cut. p. 131; Blyth, Cat. p. 81; 



Giinther, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 425 ; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 130 ; 



id. Cat. p. 156 ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, pp. 67, 73. 

 Cladobates belangeri, Wagner, Schreb. Simgeth. Supp. ii, p. 42. 

 Tupaia belangeri, Giinther, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 426 ; Anderson, An. Zool. 



Res. p. 126 ; id. Cat. p. 154 ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, pp. 59, 63 . 

 Tupaia peguana, Lesson, Nouv. Tab. Bey. An., Mam. p. 93 (1842): ; 



Jerdon, Mam. p. 65 ; Blyth, Mam. Birds Burma, p. 31 ; W. man}. 



J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, p. 152. 



Tupaia chinensis. Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 129 ; id. Cat. p. io5. 



Kalli-iang-zhinfj, Lepcha; Tswai, Bur.uese ; Tupai tana, Malay 

 (Penang). 



Fig. 55. Tupaia ferruginea. (From a drawing by Col. Tickell.) 



Pur soft, some of the hairs on the back coarser, longer, and 

 distinguished by their lustre. 



Perforation in the malar bone moderately large, oval. Inner 

 lobe of second upper premolar variable, being occasionally nearly 

 half the breadth of the tooth, but generally reduced to a very small 

 size, and resembling a cingulum. Inner lobe of third upper premolar 

 about half as wide (from front to back of tooth) as outer lobe. 

 Inner lobes of first and second upper molars narrower than outer 

 lobe, and with a small additional cusp at the posterior, but none 

 at the anterior inner angle. 



Colour. Above and on the sides varying from brown with a 

 yellowish tinge to deep ferruginous, always speckled or grizzled, 

 though less distinctly in ferruginous specimens. Tail and outside 

 of limbs nearly the same as the back, except that in some ferruginous 

 specimens the tail is less rufous. A pale oblique stripe, sometimes 



