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14. FUNAMBULUS PEBNTI M.-Edw. 



Kve specimens. 



Several examples of this well-marked species have also been 

 presented to the Museum by Messrs. La Touche & Rickett in 

 previous consignments. 



" Common in the forests at 3000-4000 feet altitude." 



15. TXPHLOMTS CINEEETJS M.-Edw. 



Six skins and a male in spirit. 



Mr. La Touche had already presented the British Museum with 

 three skins of this most intesesting little animal, and it was by 

 the help of these that, when working out the classification of the 

 Rodents, I was enabled to show its relationship to the South 

 Indian Platacantliomys. 



In the same paper ^ was recorded the important fact that the 

 latter genus, like the true Glirinae, possesses no caecum, and it has 

 therefore been with much interest that I have examined the 

 intestines of Mr. La Touche's spirit-specimen of Typldomys. Here 

 I find that, unlike its ally, a caecum is present, although it is only 

 about an inch in length. Typhlomys is, therefore, even more 

 distinctly intermediate between the Gliridae and the Muridae than 

 had been supposed. 



" I procured 8 specimens of this rare mouse. I believe they 

 were all caught in the mountains some hundred feet above the 

 A-illage, say at 4000 feet." 



16. Mttb liATOUCHEi Thos. 



Two specimens. 



This fine i-at was described in 1897 ' on one of Mr. La Touche's 

 Kuatun specimens. Like so many other animals in this region it 

 seems to have been first obtained by Pere David, as I find I have 

 notes on a specimen in the Paris Museum received there in 1874. 



" Mus latovchei is a forest rat, and is uncommon, at least in 

 the spring. Once, when walking in the forest, a native hunter 

 showed me a run and burrow of this rat. It was in the bank by 

 the side of the path. We procured only one specimen during our 

 stay, but another had been collected for me during the winter." 



17. MtJS HUMiLiATtrs M.-Edw. 



One from Kuatun 27/4/98, another from Tung Chin, and a 

 third from Swatow. 



This animal is closely allied to M. decumanus, and is not 

 impossibly the original wild stock of that ubiquitous pest. 



" House-rat at Kuatun, I believe." 



18. Mus EATTUS FLATIPECTUS M.-Edw. 



Three specimens. 



Milne-Ed wards's Mus flavipectiis is clearly a member of the Mhs 



1 P. Z. S. 1896, p. 1016, footnote. 

 ^ Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) sx. p. 113. 



