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ochraceous buff. Face like the back, cheeks grey. Hands and 

 feet orange rufous, tail the same with a black tip. 



Size. — The dimensions recorded by Hodgson for magnificus are 

 — Head and body, 400 ; tail, 550. The hindfoot averages 78. * 

 Skull, greatest length, 70 ; basilar length, 56 ; greatest breadth, 47 ; 

 molars, 17. 



Remarks. — This is the low level form of the Eastern Himalayas. 



(11) Petaurista fulvinus, sp. n. 



A Petaurista of the albiventer type but back and parachute less 

 contrasted in colour and with fulvous tinge throughout. 



Fur 35-40 mm. long on the back. General colour above hazel, 

 grizzled with white on the back, darkening on the outside edges 

 of the parachute, and brightening to ochraceous rufous on the 

 shoulders and behind the forearm ; below pale rufous. Individual 

 hairs of the back olive grey basally (15 mm.), remainder bright 

 fulvous hazel with a black tip and sub-terminal white ring 

 (5 mm.) Face like back. Cheeks white, tinged rufous. Hands 

 and feet cinnamon rufous. Tail ' vinaceous cinnamon ' much 

 tinged with fulvous. 



Dimensions of the type. — Not recorded. The hindfoot is 77 mm. 

 and the other dimensions are no doubt quite as in albiventer ^ 

 Skull, greatest length, 70 ; basilar length, 50 ; greatest breadth, 

 48 ; molars, 16. 



Habitat. — Simla. 



Type.— Adult male. B. M. No. 85, 8, 1, 121. Collected by 

 W. Davison and presented to the national collection by A. O. 

 Hume, Esq. 



Remarks. — Represents albiventer in the West Himalaya. 



(12) Petaurista candidulus, sp. n. 



1888. Pteromys yunnanensis, Blanf. (nee. Anderson) Faun., 

 Brit. Ind., p. 364. 



A large Petaurista of the yunnanensis type, of paler colouring 

 and so much washed with white on the back as almost completely 

 to obscure the ground colour. 



Fur of back 30-35 mm. long. Colour above so washed with 



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