818 MR. R. STVINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS. [Nov. 5, 



chuck-chuck " of a Squirrel coloured a good deal like our South- 

 China and Formosan Squirrel, but certainly distinct. It must be 

 either the Sc. griseipectus or Sc. chinensis, both of J. E. Gray, or 

 new. I have sent home a series of specimens with a separate skull 

 or two ; but it will be as well to give a sketch of it*. 



I describe from a full-grown male with largely developed testes, 

 about two-thirds the size of Sc. castaneiventris of South China, with 

 lighter and greyer coat, pale buff belly, and broad puffy tail. 



Teeth rich buff. Upper parts, head, breast, and legs olive-grey, 

 finely tipped with black ; yellower on the crown, back, rump, and 

 tail ; the latter very puffy, its hairs long, standing out clear of one 

 another, each alternately ringed with black and olive-yellow, so as 

 to give the appearance of longitudinal black stripes ; the hairs at the 

 tip of the tail black, with pale ends. Axillae, belly, and inside of 

 thighs light chestnut-buff (this varies in intensity in different indi- 

 viduals). Soles deep flesh-brown ; claws black, with pale tips. 



Length from snout to tip of tail 164 inches, of body without head 

 65, of tail 8, of head 2g. Breadth between ears 1*3; depth of 

 head 1*5. Height of ear - 9 ; breadth of ear 6. Elbow-joint to end 

 of toes 2' 7- Tarsal joint to end of hind toes 2'1. Moustache 

 bristles long and black. Eyes blackish brown. Ears rather short 

 and somewhat rounded, clothed with short hairs. Scrotum black, 

 and for the most part bare. Hairs of tail 2 inches long. 



Pere Heude spoke to me of a small striped Glis he had seen among 

 the trees of our mountains. This will probably be the little rat-tailed 

 Sciurns m'clellandi, which has such an extensive range in Southern 

 China. I have not, however, met with it in this neighbourhood. 



I am told the Rat of this place is small and peculiar, and not the 

 Mus decumanus ; but it appears to be scarce, and I have not yet got 

 a specimen. A female of our red Field-Mouse, Mus ningpoensis, 

 Swinh. (P. Z. S. 18/0, p. 637), was brought to me while up country 

 the other day, together with its nest and four little ones. The nest 

 was laid at the bottom of a hole, and was composed almost entirely 

 of the soft, silvery, silky, spikelets of a common grass (Imperata 

 koenigii, Beauv.), intertwined with a few fibres of dried grass, as soft, 

 and warm as a feather-bed. The young had their eyes just begin- 

 ning to open. 



Sorex myosurus is here. I picked up an adult male in the garden 

 that had been killed by dogs ; but I have a little gem of a species 

 caught by Mr. T. W. Kingsmill in his own garden at Shanghai. I 

 have not seen any thing like it before. 



I will finish this record of local Mammalia by noting that last 

 September we disturbed some Bats in a ruin and secured one. It 

 turned out to be Phyllorhina swinhoii, Peters (P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 616) ; and on my last trip up country a countryman brought me 

 four specimens of a light reddish-brown species, which, from its leaf- 

 nose, also seems to be a Phyllorhina, and very probably of an un- 

 described species. 



* A living Squirrel received from Mr. Swinhoe on the 9th of November 

 appears to me to be Sciurus griseipectus. — P. L. S. 



