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vegetables. There is a slight smell in the dried skin. The contents of the 

 stomach in the spirit specimen appear to consist entirely of remains of 

 insects, amongst which I can, I think, detect termites, but most of the frag- 

 ments are too much broken for identification. 



Tupaia peguana. 



Jerdon, Mam. Ind. No. 88 :— Blyth Mam. Burm. No. Q5. 

 Blyth in his Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society classed the Peguan Tupaia as a variety of T. ferruginea, but in his 

 Mammals of Burma he separated the Burmese species, as Jerdon had done. 

 He, however, pointed out that the two are barely separable, and that 

 a ferruginous tinge is present in some Burmese specimens. 



Skins collected by Mr. Davison in Southern Tenasserim have all the 

 posterior portion of the back distinctly ferruginous. Others from Myawadi, 

 west of Moulmain, are almost equally rufous on the rump, whilst other 

 specimens again from the same neighbourhood have no rufous tinge. A 

 specimen from Tavoy has scarcely a trace of rufescent. Without a larger 

 series of Malaccan specimens than I have at hand, I cannot positively say 

 that the two forms pass into each other, but I am strongly disposed to sus- 

 pect that they do so. 



The following dimensions taken on the animals when recently killed are 

 recorded by Mr. Davison on his tickets. 



1 ^ ad. 2 ^ ad. 3 $ 



Nose to anus, 6*8 6*8 6-6 



Tail from anus, 7* 6*8 6-4 



Hairs at end of tail, I'l 1'2 0*8 



Total 14-9 148 13-8 



Length of fore foot (claws excluded), 0"S8 1' 0*9 



„ hind foot ( „ ), 1-65 1'75 1-69 



„ of ear externally, 0-3 0*2 0*35 



„ „ inside from orifice, 0'6 0'55 0*45 



Breadth of ear laid flat, 8 0*7 0'6 



No. 1 is from Kaukaryit on the Houngdarau river, 2 and 3 from the 

 neighbourhood of Myawadi, all localities to the eastward of Moulmain. 



Caenivoba. 

 Prionodon maculosus, Pis. VI, VII. 



W. Blanf. Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, March 1878, p. 93. 

 P. affinis P. gracili, sed major, atqiie maculis fasciisque fuscis majori- 

 bus ornatus ; dorso nigrescenti-fuscOj lineis sex alhis angustis transfasciatOy 

 fascia alba laterali utrinqtie post aurem oriente, usque ad femorem decur- 



