1881.] Himalayas, Tibet, and Afghanistan. 103 



Colour above yellowish brown,* rather rufous in the middle of the 

 back, below paler and isabelline or fulvous ; tail brown above, white below ; 

 feet apparently the same colour as the lower parts. 



Fur dark slaty at the base and for about two thirds of the length, the 

 terminal third being tawny at first, the tips partly brown, partly black on 

 the upper parts ; on the lower parts all the tips are tawny. 



JEars small, hairy, concealed by the fur. 



Feet small ; claws pale, short, overhung by hairs ; thumb in the fore 

 foot very small, but with a distinct claw ; middle finger but little longer 

 than the fourth, which is considerably longer than the second. The cha- 

 racters of the toes in the hind feet, which are contracted in the dried skin, 

 cannot be made out clearly. 



Tail nearly cylindrical, apparently rather more than a third of the 

 length of head and body together, and covered with short hair, which only 

 extends a short distance beyond the end, and is rather darker and more 

 rufescent above than below. 



The measurements are taken from the dried skin (1) ; those given by 

 Jerdon, from a specimen collected by himself, are added (2) as will be 

 shewn presently, it is not certain that this specimen was of the same 

 species. 



(1) (2) 



in. in. 



Length of head and body 3 3*75 



,, of tail-vertebrae • l'l 1'375 



„ of tarsus and hind foot without claws 0"8 



The following are the characters of the molar teeth : — 



Upper molar I, 5 spaces, 3 external and 3 internal angles. 



?> ?j Ilj 4 ,, o ,, ,, 2i „ ,, 



>? >> All, 3 ,, o „ „ o ,, „ 



Lower molar I, 7 „ 4 „ „ 5 ,, „ 



■>-, it 11) o ,, o ,, ,, o ,, „ 



y, )j IH> 3 ,, O „ ,, O „ ,, 



In the first upper molar the anterior outer angle is a little in front of 

 the corresponding inner angle. The last upper molar has three nearly 



* Gray calls the colour rufous-grey. As he undoubtedly described the same skin 

 as I have examined, I can only say that his ideas of coloration were different from 

 mine, for it is difficult to believe that the colour has changed from rufous-grey to yel- 

 lowish brown. A change from yellowish brown to rufous-grey would be far more 

 likely to result had the specimon been exposed to light ; to the best of my belief, how- 

 ever, the skin has not been exposed. Jerdon calls the colour ashy brown, with a tinge 

 of rufous more or less apparent ; but he described different specimens, and as he did 

 not examine the teeth it is by no means certain that they belonged to the same species. 



