82 MR. C BODEN KLOSS ON 



'6 Rattus rattus germaini (A. M.-Edw.). 



Mus germaini A. Milne-Edwards, Rech. Mamm., 1874, p. 289 

 (Pulo Condore) ; Bonhote, Fasciculi Mibtyense-, Zool. 1, 1903, p. 37 

 ("Cochin China." Errore?) ; id., P. Z. S, 1905, p. 390. 



Mus germani de Pousarges, Mission Pavie Indochine, Etudes 

 Diverses, III, 1904, p. 548 (Poulo-Condore). 



1 6 ad., 1 6 vixad., 1 6 subad., Pulo Condove, 8 — 13 Sept. 

 1919 [ Nos 2712— 4/CBK. ]. Dr. Malcolm Smith's collector. 



Above : — a grizzle of ochraceous and black ( the subadult 

 animal ochraceous-buff and black ) : base of fur dark grey showing 

 somewhat on the sides and lower parts of the limbs. Hands and 

 feet white. Below : — the adult whitish on the neck, the remaining 

 part creamy, the bases of the hairs scarcely grey : scrotum partly 

 rufous ( j)ossibly stained ). The scarcely adult animal ivory, the 

 basas grey where the white underparts meet the colour of the 

 sides. The subadult example almost throughout greyish white 

 below owing to the pronounced grey bases. Tails dark throughout. 



Skulls robust without any peculiar features, except that in the 

 oldest and youngest specimens the palatal foramina ( which are, 

 combined, long ovals ) are rather abruptly contracted for the an- 

 terior two millimetres. Rostrum fairly long and rather slender. 



I cannot hold with Bonhote that this rat has anything to do 

 with R. griseiventer ( Fascic. Mai., t. c, pp. 35—8): it is a member of 

 the coarser, more heavily built, white-bellied section of rattus rats, 

 which are quite distinct from that animal and its allies. 



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