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17. Mus cervicotor, Hodgs. 
a. Boori-bazar, 11/3/81. 
This is evidently Blyth’s M. cunicularis’ described from the 
Khasia hills, and bears out my suspicion that that is merely a 
synomym of M. cervicolor’. 
18. VANDELEURIA OLERACEA, Bean. 
a, b. Boori-bazar, 11/3/81. 
Dr. Anderson (Zool. Yunn. Exp. p. 313, 1878) has already noted 
the presence of this interesting little species in Burma and the 
neighbouring countries. It seems probable that Mus dadius, Blyth 
(J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 295), described from the valley of the Sitang, 
should be added to the synonyms of V. oleracea. 
19, Ruizomys Baptus, Hodgs. 
a—f. 4 adult and 2 young. Boori-bazar, 11 and 12/3/81. g, h. 
2 young, Moirang, 22/3/81. 
The young specimens are interesting as showing that this species 
only assumes its rich chestnut-colour in adult age, as they are all 
of a hue more resembling that of Rh. pruinosus, Bly., than that of 
the adult animals along with which they were caught, and of which 
they are presumably the young. 
III. Tae Tenasserim CoLueEcrion. 
Next in interest to the Manipur mammals come those from 
Tenasserim, collected nearly entirely by Mr. Davison in 1877 and 
1878, at the time when Mr. Hume was bringing together materials 
for the valuable paper on the Birds of Tenasserim published in 
1878°. In this paper may be found a description (p. 522) of all 
the localities at which Mr. Davison worked, and at which therefore 
these mammals were obtained. It was on this collection that Mr. 
Blanford’s paper “On some Mammals from Tenasserim’’* was 
based, and in the present account there are therefore no novelties to 
be described, that author having then named, described, and figured 
the two remarkable species Prionodon maculosus and Sciurus rujigenis, 
the typical specimens of which are in Mr. Hume’s collection. As 
Mr. Blanford’s paper is not, however, a full account of the collection, 
but merely consists of notes on the rarer and more interesting 
species, I have considered it advisable, notwithstanding his paper, to 
write a list of the Tenasserim as well as of the other mammals of 
the Hume collection. 
Tenasserim mammals are of interest chiefly on account of the 
passage that takes place in that country from the Burmese to the 
Malay fauna, as we find that the South Tenasserim species, those 
from Bankasun, are more or less Malay in character, and add several 
species to the list of the mammals of British India, while on the 
1 J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 721 (1855). 2 P. Z.S. 1881, p. 548. 
5 «Stray Feathers,’ vol. vi. 1878. * J. A.S. B, xlvii. p. 150 (1878). 
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