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destructive to everything else. Very active, living largely in the roofs 

 of houses. Said to be subject to bubonic plague equally with rufescens.''' — 

 G. C. S. 



Vernacular name — Chwet-mwe (Popa). 



Leggadilla shortuidgei, Thos. 



Burmese Spiny Mouse. 



1914. Legyadilla shortridyei, Thomas, Journ., B.N.H.S. XXIII, p. 30. 



S 4. Mingun. 



S 13, $ 18. Mt. Popa. 



c? 2. Pagan. 

 "Very plentiful on Mt. Popa among rocks and around cultivation. 

 Trapped at Mingun in Prickly Pear thickets." — G. C. S. 



MUS MANEI, Kel. 



The Common Indian House Mouse. 



(Synonymy in No. 5). 

 $ 1. Pagan. 

 {See also Reports Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14). 



There is only a single specimen in this collectit)n, so for convenience I 

 place it under the name hitherto used for all but the specimens from 

 Kumaon. The present specimen however differs somewhat from true manei 

 in colouring, and may very well be an imported musculus. 



"Appears to be much more local or scarce than it was on the Shan 

 Plateau, possibly it is crowded out by Epimys concolor, where that species 

 occurs." — G. C. S. 



MuS NITIDTTLUS, Blyth. 



Berdmore'' s Mouse. 



1859. Mus nitidulus, Blyth., J.A.S.B., XXVIII, p. 294. 

 1891 . Mus nitidulus, Blanford, Mammalia, No. 285. 



(S 1. Pagan. 



c? 9, 2 5. Mt. Popa. 



(S 1. Mandalay. 

 " Fairly plentiful on Mt. Popa in rocky country and around cultivation 

 although out numbered by Leyyadilla and Mus booduya.'" —Q. C. S. 



Mus BOODUGA, Gray, 



The Southern Field Mouse. 



(Synonymy in No. I.) 



S 29, $ 29. Mt. Popa. 



1 (flat skin) Ngazun, Sagaing. (Collected by Maj. F. C. Owens). 



{See also all former Eeports except Nos. 3 and 14.) 



These seem to average a shade larger in body measurement than true 



booduya from S. India, but the hind foot measurement does not show a 



corresponding increase. 



"Swarming on Mt. Popa, especially in the cultivated lands round 



Popamyo. Probably widely distributed throughout the dry belt but like 



many of the small rodents abnormally i^lentiful on Mt. Popa." — G. 0. S. 



Vernacular name — Ch wet-gale (Popa). 



