164 CATALOGUE. 



HAB. North-west Himalaya, Blyth. 

 A. Griffith's Collection, Young. 



Mr. Gray thus describes this species : " Fur long 1 , soft, grey, 

 varied with black ; hairs lead-coloured above, flattened, pale brown, 

 with a black tip. Face whitish ; orbits black ; whiskers very long, 

 black ; chin and beneath, white. Tail broad, rather tapering, fulvous, 

 with black tips to the hairs at the base, black at the end. The feet 

 broad ; front thumb rudimentary. The outer edge of the hind feet 

 with a broad tuft of hair ; the soles of the hind feet with a small oblong 

 tubercle on the middle of the outer side, a tubercle in front, and with 

 two unequal ones on the hinder part of the inner side," 



In the sixteenth volume of the Journ. As. Soc. Beng. p. 866, in his 

 remarks on the Indian Sciuri, Mr. E. Blyth states that two specimens, 

 one from Simla, are contained in the Museum of that Society. 



Genus ARCTOMYS, Schreb. et al. 



MURI Species, Linn, et al. 



227. ARCTOMYS BOB AC, Schreb., Scmgth. p. 738. 



Arctomys himalayanus, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. X. 

 p. 777, with a figure. XII. p. 409 (potius Tibetanus 

 hodie). 



Arctomys caudatus, Jacquemont, Voy. dans VInde, tome 

 4 me , Zool. p. 66. 



HAB. Tibet, Copt. R. Strac/iey. Tibet and the Himalayan 

 Slopes, Hodgson. 



A. B. Adult. From Capt. R. Strachey's Collection. 



C. Young. 



D. and E. Two flat Skins, not in good condition. Pre- 



sented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



F. A Skin, imperfect. Presented by the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal. 



In the twelfth volume of the Journ. As. Soc. Beng., B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., gives a notice of two Marmots inhabiting, respectively, the plains 

 of Tibet and the Himalayan slopes near the snows: 1. A. tibetanus ; 

 2. A. himalayanus ; with copious. details of their structure and habits. 



