TUPAIA TANA. 



Ord. Ill™ Carnassieks, Cuvier. a*?" Famille. Les Insectivores. 

 Ord. III. Fer^, Li?m. Syst. 

 Ord. XII. Falculata, Illlger. 



TUPAIA, Raffles, Act. Soc. Linn. Loncl 



Character genericus. — Vide Tupaia javanica. 



Tupaia rostro longissimo, corpore supra fusco et nigrescente vario svibtus strigaque 

 scapular! ex badio rufescente. 



Tupai-tana, of the Inhabitants of Sumatra. 



Tupaia tana, Sir T. S. Saffles's Cat. of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 

 Soc. XIII. p. 257. 



The Tupaia tana has abeady been enu.merated in the account of the Tupaia 

 javanica. We owe the discovery to Sir Stamford Raffles, who having given a 

 description of it in his Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made in Sumatra, 

 forwarded the first specimen to England. An examination of this having with great 

 liberality been afforded to me by the Board of Curators of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, I have been enabled to give some details regarding its external appearance, 

 its teeth, and dimensions. I have also added a figure of the animal, and those 

 peculiarities in the species which will tend to illustrate the genus Tupaia in general. 



The Tupaia tana is the largest species of the genus hitherto discovered. Its 

 dimensions are the following : — 



Inches. Lines. 



Length of the body and head, from the extremity of the nose 



to the root of the tail 10 5 



the entire head 2 6 



the rostrum, or attenuated part of the head 1 4 



the neck 1 



