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17. Mus RATTUS RUFESCENS, Gr, 
a. Sambhar. 
Being now quite convinced of the specific identity of Mus rattus 
and alewandrinus, I use the Linnean name rattus in preference to 
that of alexandrinus provisionally employed in my review of the 
Indian Rats and Mice’. 
18. Hysrrix Leucura, Sykes. 
a. g. Sambhar, 27/1/78. 
19, Lepus RUFICAUDATUS, Geof. 
a-c. Sambhar, 12/77 and 1/78. 
II. Tae Manipur Couvecrion. 
The series from Manipur contains some of the rarest and most 
interesting of all the mammals presented by Mr. Hume, as was, 
indeed, to be expected, that country being as yet but little explored, 
and its mammal fauna being practically unknown. The collection 
consists of 61 specimens, belonging to 19 species, of which the greater 
part are decidedly Himalayan in character, the others being either 
peculiar to Manipur or only otherwise known from Burma. One 
species and one variety only are new to science, but many are rare 
and obscure, and all are of the greatest value as filling up an impor- 
tant gap in our knowledge of the fauna of Further India. 
With regard to the smaller mammals also, collections from this 
region are of especial value, owing to the large number of Burmese 
species described by Blyth that still require proper identification. 
Notably is this the case among the Rodents, and it is with the 
greatest satisfaction that I am able to identify several of his species 
in the present and the Tenasserim collections. 
The most important contributions to our knowledge of the 
mammal fauna of the Manipur region are :— ; 
1. Blyth’s posthumous “ List of the Mammalsof Burma” published 
as an extra part of J. A. S. B. xliii. 1875, which contains references 
to all the species then known to inhabit Burma, and in which the 
greater part of the species represented in Mr. Hume’s collection are 
mentioned; and 
2. Dr. Anderson’s ‘ Zoological Results of the two expeditions to 
Western Yunnan,’ 1878, which is less a list of the specimens obtained 
by the expeditions than a series of monographs of the chief Indian 
genera of mammals. These monographs, especially those of the 
Sciuride, have been of great value to me in working out the Hume 
collection, and I have made constant references to them throughout. 
Mr. Hume has not as yet published his intended account of the 
Birds of Manipur, but when he does, he will no doubt give full 
particulars about the localities at which the mammals were obtained. 
1 P.Z.8. 1881, p. 533. 
