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 With round naked Tails. 



Mus Pilorides. M. cauda langivscula squamata truncato-obtusa, 



corpore albido. Li. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 126. 

 Whitish Rat, with longish, scaly, obtusely- truncated tail. 

 0. Castor cauda lineari tereti. Broun Jam. p. 484. '? 

 Piloris. Bujf. lo.p. 2. 



THIS species is found in India and the Indian 

 islands, and in size nearly equals the Guinea-Pig. 

 Its colour is whitish, with a cast of grey-ferru- 

 ginous on the back, and of cinereous on the ab- 

 domen : the tail is longish, nearly naked, scaly, 

 and obtuse at the extremity. A variety of this 

 animal is found in the American islands, which 

 seems to differ from the above in bein- of a darker 



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colour on the back, and in having a much shorter 

 tail. Perhaps it may be a distinct species, but 

 the history of both seems at present not suffi- 

 ciently clear to enable us to determine this point. 



v. ii. P. i. 



