CHAf. xvii.j -MA.MMALIA. 187 



single outlying species of Macroseelides inhabits Barbary and 

 Algeria; while the two genera iV/7w^?w?iM6', and Rhyneoci/on, each 

 represented by a single species, have only l)een found at 

 Mozambique. 



Family 16.— TUPAIIDyE. (3 Genera, 10 species.) 



Generai, Di.STRIBL'TION. 



Neotuopical 1 NKAUcrio 



SUB-BEGIONS. SUB-REGiOSS. 



Pa L.E ARCTIC 

 SUB-HEGIONS. 



Ethiopian i Oriental i Australia.s 

 SuB-REGio.vs. Sub-regions. Sub-rboions. 



2.3. A 



The Tupaiid?e are squirrel-like shrews, having bushy tails, 

 and often climbing up trees, but also feeding on the ground and 

 among low 1j ashes. The typical Tvpaia (7 species), are called 

 ground squirrels by the ]\Ialays. They are most abundant in 

 tlie Malay ishands and Indo-Chinese countries, but one species 

 is found in the Khasia Mountains, and one in the Eastern Ghauts 

 near Madras. The small shorter-tailed Hylomys (2 species) is 

 found from Tenasserim to Java and Borneo ; while the elegant 

 little Ptilocerus (1 species) with its long pencilled tail, is confined 

 to Borneo; (Plate VIII. vol. i. p. 337). The family is therefore 

 especially Malayan, with outlying .species in northern and con- 

 tinental India. 



Extinct Species. — Oxijgoiiiphns, found in the Tertiary deposits 

 of Germany, is believed to belong to this family ; as is Omcrniys, 

 from the Pliocene of the United States. 



Family IT.^ERINACEID.E. (_! Genera, 1.3 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical j >earct:c 

 Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 



Pal.«arctic 

 sub-hegions. 



Ethiopi.vn 

 sub-reoions. 



Oriental | Australian 

 Sub-regions. Slb-kkgions. 



1 .2.3. 4 3 ~ 1.2 



The Hedgehogs, comprised in the genus jE'?'mf/rt'?/.s (14 species),- 

 are widely distributed over the Palaiarctic, and a part of the 



