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(25) TUFAIA BELANGERI, WagU. 



The Tenasserim Tree Shreiv. 



1841. Cladobates belangeri, Wagner., Schr. Saug. Supp. II, p. 42. 



1842. Twpaia feguanus, Lesson, Nouv. Tab. Mamm., p. 93. 

 1888. Twpaia ferruginea, Blanford, Mammalia No. 102. 



(5 2, Victoria Point ; J 7, cJ 6, Bankachon ; <Sh, c? 2, Tenasserim 

 Village ; S 2, Tagoot ; (54, d" 1, Banlaw. 



The type locality of T. ferruginea is Sumatra, it belongs to a section of 

 the Genus with two pairs of mammae, whereas the present animal has three. 

 T. belangeri was first taken at Siriam near Rangoon ; it differs chiefly in 

 colour from chinensis, And. (Kakhyen Hills) and siccata, Thos. (Dry Zone 

 and Shan States) and these latter must both rank as geographical races of 

 belangeri. 



" Tree shrews were no more numerous here than in the almost treeless 

 portions of the Dry Zone ; there, however, they frequented chiefly the trees 

 planted round the villages. 



Weight. — 4J-5J ozs. 



Vernacular name — Tupai-tana (Malay, Bankachon)." — G. C. S. 

 (26) Gtmnuka gymkura, Raffles. 



Raffies's Gymnura. 



1822. Viverra gymnura, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII, p. 272. 



1827. Gymnura rafflesi, Horsfield and Vigors, Zool. Journ., Ill, p. 248. 



1888. Gymnura rafflesi, Blanford, Mammalia No. 109. 

 d' 6, c? 3j Bankachon. 



This animal was first described under the specific name gymnura by 

 Raffles. Later Horsfield and Vigors established a new genus to receive it 

 which they called also Gymnura and changed the specific name to raffiesi. 

 For this latter however there was no authority, hence the species must 

 stand under the name I have given it above. 



This animal is perhaps most like a Bandicoot, but the snout is much 

 elongated. The head, shoulders and about half the back are white with a 

 varying admixture of black hairs. (There is a black streak over the eye 

 varying in size and intensity in various individuals.) The whole of the 

 rest of the body and limbs is black. The tail is naked, black at the base, 

 white towards the tip. The head and body measure 12 to 14 inches, the 

 tail 9 to 10 and the weight is from 2 to 2^ lbs. 



" Quite plentiful round Bankachon but extremely local. The habits of 

 Gymnura when known make it a fairly easy animal to look for. 



At, Bankachon they frequented the neighbourhood of the small 

 forest streams, which flow from the hills into the Pakchan river, 

 but apparently ooly near their sources, before they entered the Mangrove 

 Swamps and became tidal. Their tracks, which were never at any distance 

 from water, were very easy to find, being most numerous up and down 

 the sandy, half dry beds of these streams. As a rule, most small mammals 

 seem to prefer the edges to the sodden, dark interior of evergreen forests, 

 but the tracks of Gymnura were only found where the streams flowed 

 through the very depth of the jungle. Their hiding places were some- 

 times among the overhanging roots of trees near the stream, or else in holes 

 like those of bandicoots, which had evidently been excavated by 

 themselves. 



When caught alive Gymnura is extremely savage, and bites at anything 

 within reach with an accompaniment of snarls and growls. Two of my 

 ferrets were pitted against one of these animals, the Gymnura, although 



