140 CATALOGUE. 



Order IV. GLIRES. 



Fam. 1. MURID^E, Gray, Cat. Mamm. 

 Br. Mus. Syst. List, XXIII. 



a. MUEINA. 

 Genus Mus, Linn. 



157. MUS DECUMANUS, Pallas. 



CHOOHA and GHURKA CHOOHA, Dekhani, Elliot. 

 CHOOA, of the Mahrattas, Col. Sykes. 



HAB. Persia and India generally. Dukhun, Col. Sykes. 

 Indian Archipelago, Dr. Sal Mutter. Introduced into 

 Europe about the year 1730, Fischer. 



A. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



158. MUS DECUMANOIDES, TemmincJc (not Hodgson). 

 HAB. Bengal, General Thomas Hardwicke. 



A. B. Presented by General T. Hardwicke. 



159. MUS BANDICOTA, Bechstein, Penn. Nat. Gesch. 

 ubers. v. Bechstein. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 314. 



Mus giganteus, Hardw., Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII. t. 18. 



Mus malabaricus, Shaw, Zool. 



Mus Icria, Fr. (Buchanan) Ham. MSS. Mus. Soc. Ind. 

 Orient. 



Bandicote rat, Penn., Hist, of Quadr. 



IKARA, Bengali. INDUR, Sanskr. A sort of rat. 



PANDI KOKU, Telugu, a large rat, commonly called Bandy- 

 coot, from Pandi, a Hog, and Kokka, a Rat. The 

 Hog-Rat, Wilson, Elliot, Campbell. 



GHONS, Dekhani, Elliot. 



TIKUS BESAR, Malayan peninsula, Cantor. 



HAB. Bengal and peninsula of India, Hamilton, Elliot. 

 Malayan peninsula, Cantor. 



A. B. Two prepared skins, not in good condition. Pre- 

 sented by Gen. T. Hardwicke. 



C. A Drawing from the Collection of Dr. F. (Buchanan) 

 Hamilton. 



