PTEROMYS. 



361 



b". Tail-tip not black, or long and ill-de- 

 fined P. yunnanensis, p. 364. 



b'. Head much greyer than back P. caniceps, p. 365. 



C. Lower surface rufous ; white spots on back. . P. punctatus, p. 365. 



227. Pteromys oral. The large brown Flying-Squirrel. 



Pteromys philippensis ?, Gray apud Elliot, Madras Jour. L. S. x, 



p. 217 (1839). 

 Pteromys oral, Tickell, Calc. Jour. N. H. ii, p. 401, pi. xi (1842); 



Kelaart, Prod. p. 55 ; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 279 ; Sterndale, 



Jour. Bombay N. H. Soc. \, p. 70. 

 Pteromys petaurista, Pallas, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 865, xxviii, 



pp. 276, 286; id. Cat. p. 94; Jerdon, Mam. p. 174; nee Sciurus 



petaurista, Pallas. 



Pteromys petaurista, var. cineraceus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 865. 

 Pteromys cineraceus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 276; id. Cat 



p. 94 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 35 ; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. 



p. 281 ; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, p. 165. 



Fig. 122. Pferomys oral. 



Ural, Kol. ; Pakya, Mahr. ; Parachaten, Mai. ; Egala-dandolena, Cing. ; 

 Shu-byan, Burmese. 



Ears moderate, covered with short hair that becomes longer 



