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149. SO REX SIKIMENSIS, Hodgson, Ann. and Mag. of 

 Nat. Hist. New Series, III. p. 203. 



Colour above and of the head, saturated blackish brown, slightly 

 rufescent, with a silvery cast in certain lights ; grayish underneath. 

 Fur short, smooth, delicately soft, and closely adpressed. Snout 

 long, regularly attenuated, with few lateral hairs. Body abruptly ter- 

 minated behind. Tail slender, rigidly straight, naked, half as long as 

 the body. Ears concealed. Discovered, with the preceding species, by 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



HAB. Sikim and Darjeling, Upper India. 

 A. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Genus CORSIRA, Gray, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 123. 



150. GOES IB A NIGRESCENS, Gray, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. X.p. 261. 



HAB. Bootan, Pemberton. 



A. Major Pemberton's Collection from Bootan. 



Genus ERINACEUS, Linn. 



151. ERINACEUS COLLARIS, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. 

 Mus. p. 81. Illust. Ind. Zool. I. tab. 8. 



HAB. India generally. Madras, Walter Elliot, Esq. Af- 

 ghanistan, Griffith. Candahar, Captain Hutton. 



A. Griffith's Collection from Afghanistan. 



152. ERINACEUS NUDIVENTRIS, Horsf. 



? Erinaceus micropus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. XV. p. 170. 

 HAB. Madras, Elliot. 



A. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Size, about one-half of that of E. collaris. Form elongated. Tail 

 short, concealed. Spines, yellowish white at the base and tip, with a 

 blackish ring in the middle. Ears moderately large. Head and ears 



