150 W. T. Blanford — On some 3IammaIsfrom Tcnasset^im. [No. 3, 



The first specimen of this species (a very beautiful and perfect skin) 

 was obtained by Mr. Davison at Bankasiin in Southern Tenasserim. The 

 animal was caught in a trap. The second specimen was procured by Mr. 

 Limborg to the East of Moulmain. 



Martes flavigida. 



Blyth, J. A. S. B., XXVI, p. 316 ; XLIV, Pt. 2, extra number, p. 29 :— Jerdon, 

 Mam. Ind. p 82. 



A skin belonging to the Malayan race, distinguished from the Hima- 

 layan form by the crown of the head and nape being brown instead of black, 

 by wanting the white chin, and by the fur being shorter, was obtained at 

 Bankasun in Southern Tenasserim by Mr. Davison. The Himalayan form 

 is recorded from Arakan by Mr. Blyth, so that both are found in British 

 Burma. 



RODENTIA. 



Seiurus ruflgenis, Pis. VII, VIII. 



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



8. medius, S. atridorsalem canicepemque magnitudine subcequanSy sed 

 Cauda corpore cum capite jpaullo hreviore, rostro longo ; sup erne fusco-o liva- 

 ceus, pv/iictiunculis minutis nigris fulvisque variatus, suhtus alius, maculd- 

 que alhd post aurem utram signatus^f route rufescente, genisferrugineis, 

 mystacibus nigris, caudd disticJid, superne cand, pilis nigris alho-terminatis 

 atque semel annulatis indutd, suhtus castaned. Long, corporis a rostro ad 

 anum 8, caudce^ pilis ad extremitatem non inclusis 6*5, planted sine ungui- 

 bus 1-8. 



Hah. in sylvis densis, ad latera montis Muleyit dicti, in provincid 

 Tenasserim Burmanice, (Davison, Limborg). 



This squirrel is nearly the same size as 8. caniceps and 8. atrodorsalis, 

 but the tail is much shorter, its length, without counting the hairs at the 

 end, being always considerably less than that of the head and body ; it is 

 distinctly distichous below. Fur soft throughout. 



Upper parts dark olive, frizzled, cheeks ferruginous, a small white spot 

 behind the ear, lower parts white, tail hoary, black with white rings and 

 tips above, chesnut below. 



The colour of the back and sides resembles that of specimens of 8. 

 caniceps in which there is no yellow or rufous tinge, being a fine mixture of 

 black and pale yellow, the sides rather paler. The fur on the back, as in se- 

 veral allied species of squirrel, is of two kinds, the finer and shorter hairs 

 being dark leaden colour at the base, pale yellowish grey at the tips, and 

 about a quarter of an inch long in the middle of the back, the longer hairs 

 are coarser, about halfc* an inch long, and black with a pale yellow ring near 



