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-and doubtless the coloration of the tree-bark is selected to match the fur by the 

 resting animal, for I have shot in Malacca grey specimens on grey-barked trees, 

 lhe ' Caguang ' of the Bisayas."— J. W. 



Crocidura (Croc.) grayi Dobs. 

 Crocidura {Croc.) grayi Dobs. Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) vi. p. 494. (1890). 



a. Benguet, Luzon, Feb. 1894. Presented by Mr. Whitehead. 



b. Monte Data, Feb. 1895. 



This Shrew was described by Dr. Dobson from two specimens in the British Museum 

 that had been received from the Zoological Society's old collection, and had been 

 obta.ned by Mr. H. Cuming. Although merely labelled "Philippines," they were' 

 most probably from Manila. 



Luzon also contains a member of the subgenus Pachyura, examples of which in the 

 British Museum have been labelled by Dr. Dobson as C. murina. Probably they 

 represent Peters's C. luzoniensis l . 



Felis minuta Temm. 



a. Negros. 



"This handsome little Cat is apparently found only in the islands of Panay, Negros 

 and Cebu ; but as it also occurs in the great continental island of Borneo doubtless 

 it will some day be found in Mindanao. One of my hunters declared that he shot at a 

 Wild Cat in Samar among some rough broken-up limestone, into which the wounded 

 animal unfortunately disappeared. I think we may say for certain that this Cat does 

 not occur in Luzon, which is so well cultivated that it could scarcely have escaped 

 detection. In Mindoro it might be possible for this animal to have escaped detection 

 as the island is perhaps, after Mindanao, the wildest and most densely covered with 

 forest of the whole group. 



"In Negros, where we obtained a specimen of Felis minuta, the animal 

 frequented the sugar-plantations, where it finds an abundance of rats Darin- 

 harvesting operations this Cat is often captured by the natives, who form a ring round 

 the last patch of standing cane. One of my collectors said that he saw this animal as 

 high as 6000 feet, on Canloan volcano. 



" Distribution, Panay, Negros, and Cebu."— J. W. 



Felis domestica L. 



Reference has already been made 2 to what appears to be a feral Domestic Cat 

 obtained by Mr. Whitehead on Monte Data. Mr. Whitehead's own notes on the 

 subject are as follows: — 



1 MB. Ak. Berl. 1870, p. 595. 



2 Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 245 (1896). 



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