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9 J c? ; 19 $ 5 , 6 in al. Rajkot, Kathiarwar. 

 3 d d ; 1 ? • Vankaneer. 



2 c? d ; 4 2 $ (2559 skull only.) Juna Bowli. 



3 cJ d" ; 1 $ . Muli, Muli State. 



9 c? d ; 1 $ . Moti Mojiti, Bajana. 



6 d J ; 3 $ 2 . Sadla, Bajana. 



2 d d ; 1 $ • Sihor, Bhavnagar, Kathiawar. 



{See also Report No. 3.) 



These specimens from the more open country in the N. E. have the 

 drab colouration typical of M. duimi, while those from the forests at Sasan 

 have the usual appearance of M. booduga; it vi^ould seem from this, that 

 they are not Northern and Southern forms but open country and jungle 

 varieties. 



" At Rajkot many of these small mice were taken on similar ground as 

 Grypomys gleadoioi , but it was most noticeable that they invariably favoured 

 sites with adjacent cover, such as small bushes, banks and overhanging pieces 

 of rock ; they appear to make shift with any crevice or ready made hole 

 with a sufficiently small opening. In captivity they are at first fearfully 

 wild and then quickly sulk and pine away. In Bajana they were in short 

 burrows under hedges and bushes or tufts of grass in any kind of soil and 

 even soft sand." — C. A. C. 



MUS MANBI, Kel. 



The common Indian Souse Mouse, 



(Synonymy in No. 5.) 



1 2 . Junagadh, Kathiawar. 



4 d d ; 2 2 2 ) 1 ill ^'l- Sasan, Kathiawar. 

 8 d d ; 7 2$- Sasan, Kathiawar. 



18 d d ; 22 2 $ , 3 in al. Rajkot, Kathiawar. 



2 d d • Vankaneer. 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9.) 



" Most of these mice were trapped under hedges surrounding cultivation 

 in or near Sasan village, the chokras brought me a few and in some in- 

 stances said they had caught them in their houses, but this I do not know 

 for certain." 



MlLLARDIA MELXADA, Gray. 



The soft-furred Field Rat. 

 (Synonymy in No. 1.) 



1 d • Sasan Kathiawar. 



4 d d ; 4 2 2- Rajkot, Kathiawar. 



2 d d ; 6 2 $ • Satapur, Dhrangadhra. 



4 d d ; 2 2 $ , 1 in al. Muli, Muli State. 



{See also Reports Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7.) 



Vernacular name (all rats) : — Unda. 



'' Except for the plague I cannot account for having trapped only one 

 specimen in Junagadh. At Muli it was living in cracks in the ground, gene- 

 rally in cotton fields. At Satapur these rats were trapped among rocks and 

 tumble-down walls, not near cultivation ; they appear to be rare here, because 

 I could only get the above few specimens, though setting sixty or eighty 

 traps daily." — C.A.C. 



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