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Samarate, Director of the Mission, With their help I succeeded 

 in obtaining several individuals, one o£ which ( c? ) at least is still 

 alive after spending nearly two years in a terrarium properly 

 fitted up for it. Last year it gave me frequent opportunities to 

 hear its voice, which is surprisingly strong, and sounds as " queng- 

 queng " three or four times repeated. 



The local nome " cunnuaru," evidently onomatopoeic, is formed 

 by contraction of two Indian words " cunha = wife " and " aru = 

 toad " ; the Indians say that this tree-fi-og always calls for the 

 female when the moon shines. 



5. The Duke of Bedford^s Zoological Exploration in Eastern 

 Asia. — III. On Mammals obtained by Mr. M. P. 

 Anderson in the Philippine Islands. By Oldfield 

 Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S.* 



[Received February o, 1907.] 



In the early pai't of last year, after making the Korean 

 Collection described in a previous volume of our Proceedings T, 

 Mr. Malcolm Anderson paid a short visit to the Philippines, but 

 was unfortunately attacked by fever, and after a gallant attempt 

 to fulfil the object of his trip, was compelled to return to more 

 northern and healthier latitudes. 



The chief object of Mr. Anderson's visit to the Philippines was 

 to obtain series of the interesting mammals discovered in 

 Mindanao by Dr. E. A. Mearns J, as the mountain fauna of this 

 island was only represented in our National Nuseum by the 

 duplicates from Dr. Mearns's collection which the authorities of 

 the United States National Museum had been good enough to 

 send us. But these of course did not include any of the various 

 new genera and species which had been described by Dr. Mearns 

 on single specimens or on small series, and we therefore hoped 

 that Mr. Anderson might be able to obtain some of them for us. 



Owing to Mr. Anderson's illness the collection is quite small, 

 only consisting of 16 specimens belonging to 6 species, but one of 

 these proves to be new, while all are of interest as filling up gaps 

 in our series. 



1. Urogale cylindrura Mearns. 



J. 756, 763. $. 753, 761, 762. Mount Apo, Mindanao, 

 3000-4000'. 



I am very doubtful if this form is at most more than a local 

 subspecies of U. everetti §, described from Zamboanga. The type 

 of the latter had been skinned after preservation in spirit, and such 

 slight colour difierences as there are may be due to this cause. 



* [The complete account of tlie new species described in this communication appears 

 here ; bixt since the name and preliminary diagnosis were published in the 

 ' Abstract,' the species is distinguished by the name being underlined. — Editoe.] 



t P. Z. S. 1906, p. 858. 



X See Mearns, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. p. 425, 1905. 



§ Twpaia everetti Thos. Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 6, ix. p. 250, 1892. 



