CHIROPODOMTS. 403 



ations rufous, a few loug black tips intermixed on the rump. 

 Ventral hair white throughout. Tail uniformly dark. Feet white. 

 One specimen from Fatigarh, obtained by the late Mr. A. Anderson, 

 has a rufous cross on the breast. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2-2 to 3 inches, tail 3-5 to 4-5, ear 

 about 0-5, hind foot 0-7 ; length of skull 0-85. Mus nilagiricus is 

 slightly larger, head and body 3*5, tail 5. 



Distrihution. Throughout India (except in the extreme north- 

 west), Ceylon, Assam, and Burma, extending to Yunnan. This 

 species ascends the Himalayas to a moderate elevation and is 

 found, if M. niloj/iricus is the same, on the top of the Nilgiris. 



Habits. The present species inhabits trees and shrubs, and makes 

 a nest, usually of grass or grass and leaves, in the branches. The 

 nest is often found in palms or bamboos, occasionally on the roofs 

 of houses. Three young on one occasion, and four in another were 

 brought to me in a nest. The animal is very active. 



Genus CHIROPODOMYS, Peters (1868). 



Hallux and rudimentary pollex with flat nails instead of claws, 



the other digits with strong much-curved claws. Plantar pads 



broad, oval. Skull short and broad. Anterior palatine foramina 



short. Anterior border of zygoma-root 



outside the infraorbital foramen vertical 



throughout, not emarginate above. Incisors 



narrow, not grooved. Molars tubercular, 



the transverse bands of enamel on the worn 



surface much more deeply plicated than in 



Mus, lower molars with a broad outer cin- 



gulum. Crowns of all the molars, above 



and below, when worn, traversed by two 



Fig. 130.— (a)Upper and deep longitudinal furrows, one furrow, on 



(6) lower right molars the lower molars, just inside the cingulum. 



• o{C.gh>mdes,xQ. A single species. ^ 



271. CMropodomys gliroides. Tlie penicillate-tailed Tree-Mouse. 



Mus gliroides, BIyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 721 (1855), xxxii, p. 345 : 



td. Cat. p. 120. 

 Mus peguensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 295 (1859), xxxii, p. 345, 



xxxiv, p. 193; id. Cat. p. 116; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 40. 

 Chn-opodomys penicillatus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1868, p. 448, 



pi. 1 ; Boria, An. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2% iv, p. 631. 

 Chiropodomys gliroides, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 78 ; W. Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1890, p. 632. 



Pur soft, dense and even. Tail much longer than the head and 

 body, thinly clad with hairs, which are short near the root of the 

 tail but become longer towards the tip. Feet short and broad. 

 Ears large, nearly naked, rounded. Vibrissi© copious and long. 

 Mammse 4, all abdominal. 



