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7. Chiropodomys gliroides. 



Mus gliroides, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, p. 

 721 (1855). 



3 Males, I Female. 



Of this charming little rodent four individuals were 

 obtained which were taken in the hollow internodes of 

 bamboos. It was represented in our Museum hitherto by five 

 examples only and we had regarded it as a species of rare 

 occurrence in our area, but this scarcity in collections is 

 possibly rather due to reasons of habitat and habit. 



g. TUPAIA GLIS WILKINSONI. 



Tupaior ferrnginea wilkiitsoni, Robinson and Klos?, Journ 

 F.M.S. Mus, iv, p. 173 (1911). 



I Male, I Female. 



These are rather dull coloured examples of this subspecies, 

 the rump showing very little ferruginous tint ; thus approa- 

 ching, in its little-varied upper surface, the northern species 

 T. belangeii. 



10. Hylomys suillus. 



Hyloniys suillus, Mull, and Schleg., Verhandelingen p. 

 153 (1839-44) Pl- 25, figs. 4-7, pl- 26, fig. I. 



Though generally included as a member of our fauna this 

 species seems to have been first definitely recorded from the 

 Peninsula by Robinson whose collectors obtained an individual 

 from the mountains of Selangor in igio [Journ. F.M.S. Mus. 

 IV. p. 223 (igii)]. Several examples have since been 

 captured in Perlis, the state north of Kedah, and now we have 

 these two examples from Kedah Peak. We have compared 

 them with animals from Sumatra (type region) and can 

 discover no differences. 



III. BIRDS. 



We are aware of no paper dealing exclusively with the 

 avifauna of the State of Kedah, nor indeed to our knowledge 

 have any but very inconsiderable collections been made therein. 

 A few species obtained by Cantor are mentioned by Moore in his 

 " List of Malayan Birds collected by Theodore Cantor, M.D.," 

 P. Z. S. 7^54, pp. 258-285 ; 1859 pp. 443-468, while others 

 obtained by the " Skeat Expedition" in 1899 are listed by 

 Bonhote,P. Z. S. 1901 (i) pp. 57-81. To the east the avifauna 

 of the Patani States is well known, that of Province Wellesley, 

 Penang and Perak to the South and South-east has been 

 thoroughly worked out, while to the north considerable col- 

 lections have been obtained from the small boundarj' state of 

 Perlis by the collectors of the Federated Malay States Museum, 

 which disclose nothing of special interest. 



To the north-east the fauna of Senggora is known from 

 collections obtained by the " Skeat Expedition," which dis- 

 close no material difference between it and Patani and Jalor, 



