CHIROPODOMYS. 403 



ations rufous, a few long black tips intermixed on the rump. 

 Ventral hair white throughout. Tail uniformly dark. Feet white. 

 One specimen from Fatigarh, obtained by the late Mr. A. Anderson, 

 has a rufous cross on the breast. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2'2 to 3 inches, tail 3'5 to 4-5, ear 

 about 0-5, hind foot O7 ; length of skull 0-85. Mm nilagiricus is 

 slightly larger, head and body 3' 5, tail 5. 



Distribution. Throughout India (except in the extreme north- 

 west), Ceylon, Assam, and Burma, extending to Yunnan. This 

 species ascends the Himalayas to a moderate elevation and is 

 found, if M. nilayiricus is the same, on the top of the Nilgiris. 



Habits. The present species inhabits trees and shrubs, and makes 

 a nest, usually of grass or grass and leaves, in the branches. The 

 nest is often found in palms or bamboos, occasionally on the roofs 

 of houses. Three young on one occasion, and four in another were 

 brought to me in a nest. The animal is very active. 



Genus CHIROPODOMYS, Peters (1868). 



Hallux and rudimentary pollex with flat nails instead of claws, 

 the other digits with strong much-curved claws. Plantar pads 

 broad, oval. Skull short and broad. Anterior palatine foramina 

 short. Anterior border of zygoma-root 

 outside the infraorbital foramen vertical 

 throughout, not emarginate above. Incisors 

 narrow, not grooved. Molars tubercular, 

 the transverse bands of enamel on the worn 

 surface much more deeply plicated than in 

 Mus, lower molars with a broad outer cin- 

 gulum. Crowns of all the molars, above 

 and below, when worn, traversed by two 

 Fig. 130. (a) Upper and deep longitudinal furrows, one furrow, on 

 (b) lower right molars the lower molars, just inside the cingulum. 

 of C. gliroides, X 6. A ginp . lft 8T)eR : fiS . 



: 



A single species. 



271. Chiropodomys gliroides. The penicillate-tailed Tree-Mouse. 



Mus gliroides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 721 (1855), xxxii, p. 345 ; 



id. Cat. p. 120. 

 Mus peguensis, Bk/th, J. A. S. B. xxviii,p. 295 (1859), xxxii, p. 345, 



xxxiv, p. 193; id. Cat. p. 116; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 40. 

 Chiropodomys penicillatus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl 1868, p. 448, 



pi. i; Doria, An. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2 a , iv, p. 631. 

 Chiropodomys gliroides, Thomas. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 78 ; W. Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1890, p. 532. 



Fur soft, dense and even. Tail much longer than the head and 

 body, thinly clad with hairs, which are short near the root of the 

 tail but become longer towards the tip. Feet short and broad. 

 Ears large, nearly naked, rounded. Vibrissse copious and long. 

 Mammae 4, all abdominal. 



