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Epimys kufbscens, Gray. 



The Common Indian Rat. 



(Synonymy in No. 1.) 



S 1692, 1694, 1695, 1706, 1713, 1716, 1720, 1721, 1736. ? 



1689, 1702, 1707, 1730, 1733. Bangalore, E. Mysore. 

 S 1786, 1833, 1837. $ 1793, 1819, 1836. Kolar, E. Mysore. 

 S 1910. Coromanclel. 

 S 1929, 1971. $ 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928. Seringapatam, S. 



Mysore. 

 S 2098, 2114. ? 2073, 2097. Sivasamudram, S. Mysore. 



Variety with white underparts. 



S 1693, 1704, 1705, 1724, 1784, 1735. $ 1712,1715,1723. 



Bangalore, E. Mysore, 

 c? 1779, 1780,1781, 1814, 1818, 1836, 1846, 1856. $ 1766, 



1782, 1834. Kolar, E. Mysore. 

 S 2056, 2057, 2058, 2113. Sivasamudram, S. Mysore. 



{See also all previous Reports.) 



" I consider the grey and white bellied varieties, obtained around these 

 and other camps near towns and villages, are undoubtedly one species — the 

 Indian domestic form (at one time imported). The frequent appearance 

 of white below makes it probable that the original white bellied jungle form 

 (of which specimens obtained in Kardibetta Forest, Shimoga, are typical) 

 crosses freely with the grey bellied when they meet, and that the pure 

 white bellied form has quite disappeared in the populated districts, those 

 with white bellies merely retaining a persistent character derived from 

 crossings probably of many generations back." — G. C. S.] 



" Numbers 2113 and 2114, large specimens with extremely long tails, 

 were trapped in jungle, one specimen has white underparts, and the other 

 dark."— G. C. S. 



Mus BOODUGA, Grey. 



The Southern Field-Mouse. 



(Synonymy in No. 1.) 



S 1718. Bangalore, E. Mysore. 



5 2127. Sivasamudram, S. Mysore. 



{See also Reports Nos, I, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.) 



Mus MANEI, Kel. 



The Common Indian House-Mouse. 



(Synonymy in No. 5.) 



S 1745, 1746. $ 1739, 1740, 1742, 1743, 1744. Bangalore, 



E. Mysore. 

 S 1750, 1751, 1752, 1791, 1804, 1805, $ 1748, 1749, 1753, 1787, 



1788, 1789, 1790, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1806, in al. S 1807. 



$ 1808. Kolar. 

 $ 2109, 2110,2111, 2115, 2137. Juv. 2118, 2120,2121,2122. 



Sivasamudram, S. Mysore. 



{See also Reports Nos. 5, 6 and 8.) 



A peculiar thing about Mus manei is that it is distinctly local, and 

 although plentiful, and occasionally swarming in most towns and villages, 

 it is sometimes unaccountably rare or even entirely absent." — G, 0. S. 



