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Leggada pahari gairdneri subsp. now 

 Diagnosis. A little more buffy above than L. p. pahari 

 (Thomas) and whiter below ; the tail also paler below, nearly bi- 

 coloured. Skull very similar but the palatal foramina more contracted 

 posteriorly, ending less squarely ; the rostrum weaker, not so deep ; 

 the incisors less stout and markedly less curved backwards. 



Characters and colour. Pelage composed of flattened grooved 

 spines and fine hair, grey (" dark gull grey ") at the base ; the spines 

 about 8 mm. long on the back, with blackish tips, and the soft hair 

 with buffy tips; the general colour-effect on upper parts and hind 

 limbs being a dark brown (nearly " clove " brown) slightly grizzled 

 with buff; sides of body greyer; sides of head and neck and the 

 fore-limbs whitish ; under side of hind-limbs, head and body white, 

 the latter distinctly margined from the sides and clothed with a 

 mixture of hair and fine spines about 5 mm. long, grey at base with 

 white tips. Hands and feet white. Tail dark above and clad with 

 dark hairs, pale below and clad with pale hairs. 



Skull and teeth. Skull of medium proportions, braincase 

 rounded. Nasals rounded anteriorly and posteriorly and terminating 

 about level with the premaxillaries and with the anterior edge of 

 the orbital spaces. 



Supraorbital edges abruptly rounded off, but without ridge 

 or bead. Anteorbital plate sloping considerably backwards from 

 base to zygoma 'and scarcely convex. 



Dorsal profile of rostrum straight between tips of nasals and 

 mid-frontals : top of braincase flattened when viewed from behind. 



Palatal foramina short and broad, their greatest combined 

 breadth in front of their mid-length, rounded posteriorly and falling 

 short of the molars by at least 1 millimetre. 



Front wall of first molar nearly vertical : tooth-rows conver- 

 ging posteriorly. 



Mesopterygoid space broad and parallel-sided, scarcely reach- 

 ing the level of the last molars. 



Bullae of normal size and dilation, as in Mus. 



Measurements. See table postea. 



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