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disabled when brought in, held its own for a considerable time, its skin, 

 which is very loose, affording a very poor hold for the ferrets, which 

 received several severe bites. The stomachs of two specimens examined 

 contained remains of cockroaches, crickets, beetles, various larvse, and 

 a millipede, besides some vegetable matter, consisting of one or two small 

 leaves which had been swallowed entire and the remains of a few small 

 berries. 



They are apparently not easily trapped, the present specimens were 

 caught by means of snares, set in their runs and outside their burrows. 



While possessing a most objectionable smell, it does not possess the 

 power of ejecting it, as in the Skunk. 



During life the long hairs of the back form a narrow compressed crest 

 running from the head to a little beyond the shoulders, and the flattened 

 white hairs have a peculiar soapy feeling. Tail distinctly compressed 

 laterally. The snout is a very sensitive organ and is constantly being 

 twisted about. Ears and bare portions of snout are pink. The villagers of 

 Bankachon value the bones of this animal as medicine. 



Weight.— 2|-3| lbs. 



Vernacular name. — ^Tikos-anxoo (Malay, Bankachon)." — G. 0. S. 



(27) Pachyuba Sp. 

 Shreivs. 



SI, $ 1, Mergui. 

 " Obtained in the native bazaar, Mergui Town." — G. 0. S. 



(28) PACHYUIiA NUDIPES, Bl. 



The Burmese Pigmy Shreiv. 



1856. Sorex nudifes, Blyth, J. A. S. B,, XXIV, p. 34. 



1888. Crocidura ferrotteti, Blanford, Mammalia No. 125 (partim). 

 S 1, Banlaw. 



This name was established by Blyth on a specimen from Mergui. The 

 skull of the present specimen seems to give slightly larger measurements 

 than those of specimens which we have called perrotteti and hodgsoni, for 

 example the inner lobe of m^ measures in antero posterior diameter 0-9 mm., 

 while in the other species it is 0'7 mm. I have therefore adopted the 

 name nudipes as at any rate geographically fitting it. 



"Taken in thick jungle, close to Banlaw village." — G. C, S. 



(29) Galeopteetjs peninstjitE, Thos. 

 The Malay Flying Lemur, 



1888. Oaleopithecus volans, Blanford, Mammalia No. 133. 



1908. Galeopterus peninsulce, Thomas, A. M. N. H., II., p. 303. 

 S 5, Bankachon. 



In 1908 (A. M. N. H., I., p. 252). Thomas dealt with the nomenclature 

 of the whole of the Flying Lemurs, putting them in two Genera, viz.: — 

 Galeopterus represented by the Sumatran form temmincJcii, Waterhouse, 

 and Cynocej^halus represented by Lemur volans, L. from the Philippines. 

 Later in the same year (1. c. II., p. 303) he separated the Malayan 

 Galeopterus from temminchii under the name peninsula. 



This animal seems to bear the same relation to the Tupaias as Petaurista 

 does to the smaller squirrels. It measures about 24 inches in length over 



