1874.] V. Ball— 0^ Tupaia Ellioti. 95 



" From Poroowa (Hazrat Panduali) an old embanked road, called by 

 the people " Nawabi Eastah," runs northward in the direction of Tajpore 

 (not on the maps,) and another runs towards Debkot. Following this road, 

 at a point some twenty miles from Poroowa and four miles east of Chura- 

 mon, you will see a place marked ' Chilumpoor,' a corruption of Salimpur. 

 Leave the road at this point, and a mile to the eastward is a place called 

 by the natives Ekda'lah. It is highland, planted with mango trees, and 

 shewing traces of embankments and brick buildings ; and during the rains , 

 when the surrounding country is extensively inundated, it stands up like an 

 island. It agrees marvellously well with the description of the fort which 

 baffled Firuz Shah's army from the extent of the inundations surrounding 

 it. It is a good day's march from Poroowa, on one of the military roads, 

 and in the direction in which a Poroowa king would retire before an enemy 

 that came down the Ganges valley to attack him. The people say that the 

 remains are ' Nawabi.' " 



3. On the occurrence of Tvpaia Ellioti, Waterhouse, in the Satjpura Hills y 

 Central Frovices. — JBy V. Ball, Esq., M. A. 



(Received March 8th, 1874.) 



To-day I shot a specimen of the Madras Tree-shrew in the terai 

 under the Motur range of hills. It was a male, and measured 15'', of 

 which the tail to tip contributes 8.'' 



It ran out of some long grass and was perched on a stone at the foot 

 of a tree which it was about to ascend, when I shot it. 



This is I believe an addition to the hitherto known fauna of the 

 Central- Provinces. 



Dr. Jerdon says that this species was first procured by Mr. W, 

 Elliot on the hills west of Madras — the continuation of the western Ghats ; 

 but that it does not appear to be common. 



The discovery of this small animal in the Central Provinces is the 

 more interesting when viewed in connection with the fact that there are 

 to be found there also several species of birds, southern forms, whose 

 occurrence so far north was not known to Dr. Jerdon. Particularly I would 

 mention the Malabar whistling thrush {Myiophoneus Sorsjieldi, Vigors) 

 which I have obtained both in these hills and also, two years ago, far to the 

 east in the Highlands of Sirguja. 



I recognised this animal as a Tupaia at once, from having obtained 

 another species last year in the extreme south of the Great Nicobar. 

 Java, Sumatra and Borneo, have each, it is said, got its distinct species 

 of this genus ; but whether the Nicobar species is identical with either of 

 these I cannot say, as Dr. Stoliczka took all the Nicobar specimens for 



