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TUPAIIDiE. 



102. Tupaia ferruginea. The Maliy Tree-Shrew. 



Tupaia femif?mea, Itafflcx, Linn. Trans, xiii, p. 25G (1822) ; Cantor, 



J. A. S. B: XV, p. 188 ; Ilorsf. Cat. p. 131 ; Bli/th, Cat. p. 81 ; 



Giinther, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 42o ; Anderson, An. Zool Bes. p. loO ; 



id. Cat. p. 15(3 ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 188(5, pp. 07, 7-3. 

 Cladobatus belaiif^eri, Wat/n/'r, Sehrch. Siiwjcth. Supp. ii, p. 42, 

 Tupaia belan<ren, Giinther, P. Z. S. 187(5, p. 420; Anderson, An. Zool. 



Bes. p. 120 ; id. Cat. p. 154 ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1880, pp. 50, 07. 

 Tupaia peguana, Xi'i'S(:i??.,A^o;;y. TaJ). Beij. An., Mam. p. 'J3 (1842); 



Jcrdon, 3fam. p. 05 ; B!i/th, Mam. Birds Burma, p. 31 ; W. Blanf. 



J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, p. 152. 

 Tupaia chiueusis. Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 120 ; id. Cat. p. 155. 



Kalli-tang-zhinfj, Lapclia ; Tsioai, Biu-.ueso ; Tapai tana, Malay 

 (Penang). 



y K. ^-r\ 





Fig. 55. — Tujiaia ferruginea. (From a drawing by Col. Ticliell.) 



Fur soft, some of the hairs on the back coarser, louger, and 

 clistinguislied by their lustre. 



Perforation in the malar bone moderately large, oval. Inner 

 lobe of second upper premolar variable, being occasionally nearly 

 half the breadth of the tooth, but generally reduced to a very small 

 size, and resembling a cingulum. Inner lobe of third upper premolar 

 about half as wide (from front to back of tooth) as outer lobe. 

 Inner lobes of first and second upper molars narrower thaia outer 

 lobe, and with a small additional cusp at the posterior, but none 

 at the anterior imier angle. 



Colour. Above and on tlie sides varying from brown with a 

 yellowish tinge to deep ferruginous, always speckled or grizzled, 

 1 hough less distinctly in ferruginous specirai^ns. Tail ami outside 

 of lind)s neaily the same as the back, except that in some ferruginous 

 specimens the tail is less rufous. A pale oblique stripe, sojuetimes 



