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in sleep. It retires to its burrows about the end of October, and 

 remains dormant till the following April, when it throws off its lethargy, 

 and again comes forth. It is doubtless the ' desert rat* mentioned by 

 the late Captain Arthur Conolly, in his Overland Journey to India 

 (p. 54, Vol. I.)." (Hutton, Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar, 

 J. A. S. B. XV. p. 137.) 



Genus GERBILLUS, Desmar. et al 



DIPODIS Species, Hardw., Schinz, et al. 



186. GERBILLUS INDICUS, Hardw., Spec. 



Dipus indicus, Hardw., Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII. p. 279, 



with a figure. 

 Gerbillus indicus, Desmar., Mamm. p. 321. Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. Br. Mus.p. 132. 

 Mus Jencus, Fr. (Buchanan) Hamilton, MS. 

 HEREENA-MOOS, Antelope-rat, Bengalese. 

 JHENKOO INDUR, a species of Field-mouse, Mus Jencus, 



Carey, Beng. Diet. 



HAB. Plains of Hindustan, Hardwicke. 



A. A dried specimen, not in good condition. 



B. A Drawing in Dr. F. Buchanan Hamilton's Collec- 



tion. 



" These animals live in holes, which they dig in the abrupt banks of 

 rivers and ponds." (Hamilton's MS.) 



" These animals are very numerous about cultivated lands, and 

 particularly destructive to wheat and barley crops, of which they lay 

 up considerable hoards, in spacious burrows. A tribe of low Hindoos, 

 called Kunjers, go in quest of them at proper seasons, to plunder their 

 hoards, and often, within the space of twenty yards square, find as 

 much corn in the ear, as could be crammed in a bushel." (Hardwicke.) 



187. GERBILLUS ERYTHROURUS, Gray, Ann. and 

 Hag. of Nat. Hist. X. p. 266. 



HAB. Afghanistan, Griffith. 



A. Specimen agreeing with Mr. Gray's original descrip- 

 tion as above cited. 



