CATALOGUE. 161 



Sciuropterus senex, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. 



I. p. 68. 



Pteromys caniceps, Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. p. 21. 

 The Grey-headed Taguan, Gray, loc. clt. 



HAB. Darjeeling, Pearson. Blyth, J. A. S. B. XVI. p. 266. 

 A. Presented by J. T. Pearson, Esq. 



" Entire head, pepper and salt mixture, or iron-grey ; orbits and 

 base of ears, intense burnt sienna. Entire body above, and the tail 

 and flying membrane, a full clear mixture of golden and black hues. 

 Shoulders not paled. Limbs intense aurantine ochreous. Margin of 

 the parachute albescent, and neck below, the same. Body, below, 

 with parachute there, orange-red. Tip of tail black, as usual. Ears, 

 nearly or quite nude, and tail subdistichous or flatter. Pelage longer, 

 and scarcely so fine as in Magnificus and in Chrysotrix. Longest piles 

 an inch and three-quarters, and less glossy. Snout to rump, fourteen 

 inches. Head, two inches and seven-eighths. Ears one inch and a 

 quarter. Tail only fifteen inches ; with hair, sixteen inches and a half. 

 Palma, one inch and eleven- sixteenths. Planta, two inches and a 

 half." (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. pt. I. p. 68.) 



The descriptions of this and the preceding species, accompanied by 

 coloured drawings, were communicated to the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal in July, 1842, but as some delay occurred in the publica- 

 tion, both the names and first indications of Mr. Hodgson were anti- 

 cipated in the " Annals and Magazine of Nat. Hist." X. p. 263. 



218. PTEROMYS MAGNIFICUS, Hodgson, Sp. 



Sciuropterus magnificus, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



V.p, 231. 

 Pteromys magnificus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 134 ; 



Cat. Hodgs. Collect, p. 22. Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. 



XVI. p. 866. 

 The Koiral, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 134. 



HAB. Nepal, Hodgson. Assam, Blyth. 

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



ft Above, intense chestnut, below and the shoulders golden red ; tail, 

 paler than the body above, and tipped black ; a black zone round the 

 eyes, and another embracing the mustachios ; chin, pale, with a black 

 triangular spot. Nude parts of skin, fleshy-white. Tail, cylindrico- 



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