104 INSECTIVORA. 



more frequently seen in Calcutta than the previous one, and, as already stated, it 

 seems to me to be identical with N. cinereus, A. M. Edwards. 



Vosmaer^ has described what he has denominated the Bengaalische Luijnard, 

 and which he characterises thus: "Le polls est assez long, fin et laineux, mais rude 

 oM toucher, Sa couleur est, en genSrale, le gris ou cendre jaundtre clair, un pen plus 

 roux sur les flancs et aux jamhes. Autour des yeux et des oreilles, la couleur est 

 aussi un peu plus foncee, et depuis la tete tout le long du dos regne rai hrune.^^ ^ A 

 description in every way applicable to the example from Bham6 and to the Assam 

 specimens of this race which have come under my observation, and therefore also 

 embracing the Cochin-China form N. cinereus, A. M. Edwards. 



Geoffrey's^ description of N. hengalensis is founded on " le paresseux penta- 

 dactyle du Bengale'"' of Vosmaer, of which he gives Bengal as the natural abode, 

 and mentions that the animal has four upper incisors, whereas Vosmaer had stated 

 it had only two premaxillary teeth. Audebert,* however, in his work on Monkeys 

 and Lemurs, remarks that Vosmaer had overlooked the two small outer incisors, the 

 existence of which Geoff. St.-Hilaire had determined by a personal inspection of 

 Vosmaer' s specimen which is now in the Paris Museum, where it is ranked in the 

 Catalogue under N. javanicus, and Bennett^ also repeats this statement. Vosmaer's 

 figure, if a correct representation of his specimen, certainly conforms more to the 

 Assam than to the Javan form, the latter being markedly distinguished by the 

 presence of two ocular and two aural brown bands, and generally by there being 

 only two upper incisors, whereas the head of Vosmaer's figure is a very good repre- 

 sentation of the Assam Nycticehus with four upper incisors. 



I am therefore disposed to consider that the Assam, Bhamo, and Siam Nycticehi, 

 which appear to be one species, belong to the form described by Vosmaer, but the 

 correctness of this suggestion can only be ascertained by the actual comparison of 

 specimens from the foregoing localities with the type. 



The figure which M. Audebert^ has given of N. tardigradus is a life-sized 

 representation of Blyth's variety B. It is uniformly rusty-brown with no bands 

 from the eyes, which have the brown area around them but very little darker than 

 the body colour. The ears are dark, and no brown bands proceed from them to the 

 vertex, and the white which in other species exists between the eyes surrounding 

 their brown margin is here replaced by a rufous tint. This is the Burmo- 

 Malayan form, and is smaller than the Assam Nycticehus. Audebert states that the 

 specimen was in the Paris Museum under the Malayan name " Toucan,'^ which is 

 apparently the same as the " Kuhung^' figured and described by Baffles^ under the 

 names N. tardigradus and N. hengalensis, an animal without head-bands, of the 



^ Natuurkundige Bescli. &c. in Oost. ea West-indische, 1766 — 1804, p. 19, pi. xx. 



2 Buffon, Hist. Nat. (1789), Suppl. vol. vii. pi. xxxvi. p. 2125. 



3 Ann. du Mus. 1812, vol. xix. pp. 163-164. 

 ^ Singes et Makis, p. 21. 



* Gardens and Menagerie Zool. See. Lond. 1831, vol. i. pp. 139, 144. 



^ L. c. pi. i. 



^ Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1822), vol. xiii. p. 247. 



