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whole back, and even sides, grizzled. Below drab. Individual hairs 

 white at their bases. Legs very dark, white markings obsolescent. 



Dimensions of type : — Head and body, 1,051,- tail, 165; hind- 

 foot . (including hoof) 285; ear, 101. Skull: — Condylo-basal 

 length, 210; cheek teeth, 54 (60 in a younger skull). 



Habitat. — Ooorg. (Type from Nagarhol.) 



Type.— Oldi male. B.M. No. 13. 8. 22. 103. Original number, 

 2575. Collected by G. C. Sliortridge, 18th February 1913, and 

 presented to the National Collection by the Bombay Natural His- 

 tory Society. 



In addition to the type there are two females, barely adrilt, also 

 from Coorg. In the Kanara Collection is a specimen which in 

 -most particulars closely agrees with malabaricus ; the legs however 

 are paler, and there is a good deal of white on the inside of the 

 limbs, a character which is obsolescent in the Coorg animal. I 

 thought that this might prove to be an individual variation, but 

 ■quite recently I have received two skins, in the Ceylon Collection, 

 which are very like the Kanara specimen. For the present I pro- 

 pose to use the name malabaricus for all these specimens, but I am 

 quite prepared to find that the receipt of more material from this 

 pai"t of India will necessitate the erection of yet another species or 

 possibly a subspecies. 



Mr. Lydekker has kindly allowed me to see the proofs of Vol. 

 IV of his " Catalogue of Ungulate Mammals " dealing with the 

 Muntjacs and I find that he has ranked all the Indian forms as 

 subspecies of the Javan M. muntjah. In all the material before 

 me I have been unable to detect any cases of intergrading, and 

 until such are found, I prefer to give all the names specific value. 



F. — The Genus Epimys in Ceylon. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



The following is a list of the names in this Genus recorded by 

 Kelaart, in his Prodi-omus Faunge Zeylanicse : — 



1. Mus decuonanus, Pallas. 



2. Mus rattus, L. 



3. Mus decumanoides, Hodgson. 



4. Mtis ceylonus, Kelaart., J. A. S. Ceyl., Vol. II, p. 



326*, 1850. 



5. Mus Jlavescens, Elliot. 



6. Mus tetragonurus, Kelaart, J. A. S. Ceyl., Vol. II, p. 



330, 1850. 



* Note. — The original Journal not being available these references are to the 

 .reprint of 1887, 



