_•)•) 



Size and (iKNKUAi- cokoi-k. As in l\|.ital .SV. iiot,ilii» but «lurki'r 

 al)Ove; helovv " pinkish-l.ntf," l>ut ii;, the luiirh liuvi- Ion;; l.|ju-k l»m«o»t, 

 tlio cDlouriii-- iiiucli (lis}^Miist'il exi-i-pt on inm-r h'u\vh of linilw wlieiv the 

 liairs an' entirely l.iilT. A Imnul " |.inkisli.lMifT " rin^' }\>uw\ the eve, 

 extending- (l(i\vn\vui<ls over the eheek. Haii.ls an<l f.ct s|.arHi-lv 

 ehjthed witli white ti|>|>e<l hairs as in true Sr. notaht" 



DliMKNSIONS OK THi: TyI'K. ( iSleasure.l in Ih.- Il.-li I II. -.el .iiei 

 body, 215; tail, 173; hind-f-iot, 45; ear, I'l mm. 



Skull.— Greatest len^'th. I'.': Lasilar l.ni,'tli. :i'.» ; /.y^onuitii- 

 breadth, 28; nasals, ll ; intei-orl«ital lirea<llh. I*!; hrainease liii-a«ltli, 

 22 : (liasteiua, 12 -. u|i]mt molar series. !•. (i mm. 



Habitat. — Southern Central Java (tyjK' front Tjilatiap). 



Type.— Adult male: B.M. No. ;».1.5.70(.;. Uri^'inal NumUr •;<»:{, 

 collected l)y Mr. G. C. Shortrid;,'e on l«jth OetoU'r, H'n". and pn-- 

 .seuted to the British Museum Ky Mr. W. E. Balston. 



Kemauks. All the old iiames lor .S'c Hy/<»/M«— viz., IhhIJuhj, 

 plantani and hilinetitus — were directly or indireitly hased on IViuniut'ri 

 Phnitaln Squirrel from Batavia and Princes Island. Horstield wan 

 no douht deuliuLT with the present race as he mentions the eye|»iit«li, 

 Imt he tailed it pl.tufani. While therefore the form fmni Hataiviu 

 must he called //o/(////.< that from South Central and prolialily Ea.stern 

 Java has so far remainrcl mniained. 



A LIST OF A SMALL COLLECTION oK MAM.MAl.s .\NI» 



BIllDS FKOM THE MOUNTAINS OF ll-t L.\.\<;AT. 



SELAN'iOli. 



I!n II C. itOlUNSON, 1-..M.Z.H.. M.ll.n.C. 



TTNTIL the present rollection was nuide the .vmthern limit of wlmt 

 ^ Las Irvu ternu'd the Himalayo-Soudaie element in th«' fauim \t{ 

 the Malay Peninsula had Jxvn [dated at the (rintinic Bidei Push leudiuK 

 across th(> Main Kan;4e of the IVninsula from Selan^ror to Puhan^'. at 

 an elevation of alioul 2,oOt> feet. On the moiuitains north of this line. 

 ahove 3,000 feet, tlif domijiaat sjK'cies of birds uiv of Hinmlayan or 

 Suniatran facies, while further to the south on th«' hills of Nt^ri Seiii- 

 bilan and on Mount Ophii on the Johore-Malaeean iH.nler. which 

 approach or slii,ditly exceed k<>iK) feet, sueli forms an* entiivly al»M>iit. 



The Massif on which the present eoliection wju made at elevttti..n» 

 slii^'htly uiuler an<l over 4.0<M> fiit lies to the .south-west .>f (tindiii^ 

 Bidei and attains in Biikil Nuan_' a maxiiuuni height of ttU»ut MXH) 

 feet. 



The aetual locality visited was ou the head-'Wiiten* of the biupit 

 river near the suuunit of a mountain known to the loi'al Snkuin «* 

 MenaiiLT Oasiui,'. Fiv,- of tl «• l>yak eolN^ to|-> of the MntH>uiii» -j-'Ut 

 leu (lavs t'lere at the end o| M,i\ .md the eonimeneeiueut of Juuo, 

 li»ll. 



