1907.] Dr. Hossack : The Rats of Calcutta. 13 



1. Mus decumanus .. .. .. 2012 = 511% 



2. Nesokia bengalensis .. .. 1450=37-3% 



3. Mus rattus . . . . . . 373 = 9-8 % 



4. Nesokia bandicota ' var. nemorivagus . . 38 = i % 



Total . . 3,883 



MUS RATTUS. 



The Indian House Rat. 



(Synonymy after Blanford.) 



Mus rattus, Linn. Syst. Nat., i, p. 83 (1766) ; Blyth, Cat., p. 113; W. Sclater, 

 P. Z. S., 1890, p. 523. 



Mus alexandrinus , Geoff., Desc. De l'Egypte, Hist. Nat., ii, p. 733 ; Atlas, pi. v, 

 fig. I (1812) ; Sctdly, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 204; Thomas, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 533. 



Mus indicus, Geoff., Desm. Mam., p. 299 (1822), nee Beckstein. 



Mus rufescens and asiaticus, Gray, Charlesworth's Mag. N. H., i, p. 585 (1837). 



Mus rattus and flavescens {nee Waterhouse) , Elliot, Mad. Jour. L. S., x, pp. 

 212-214. 



Mus brunneusculus , rattoides, nitidus and horeites, Hodgson, A. M. N. H. (I), xv, 

 pp. 267, 268 (1845). 



Mus nemoralis, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xx, p. 168 ; id. Cat., p. 114. 



Mus kandianus , Kelaart, Blyth, Ibid., p. 169. 



Mus rattus, ceylonus, flavescens, nemoralis and asiaticus, Kelaart, Prod., pp. 58, 

 61-63. 



Mus robustulus, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 294 (1859) J ^^- Cat., p. 114; id. Mam. 

 Birds Burma, p. 39. 



Mus crassipes, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 295. 



Mus (Leggada) andamanensis , Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxix, p. 103 (1890) ; id. Cat., 

 p. 114. 



Mus rattus, andamanensis , nemoralis, rufescens, robustulus, nitidus, horeites and 

 œquicaudalis , Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxxii, pp. 338-344. 



Mus infralineatus, Blyth, Cat., p. 116 (no description). 



Mus rattus, infralineatus, brunneus, rufescens and nitidus, Jerdon, Mam., pp. 

 194, 197-201. 



Mus palmarum, Zelebor, Novarareise Säugeth, p. 26, PI. 3. 



Mus sladeni and yunnanensis, Anderson, Ann. Zool Res., pp. 305, 306. 



Mus rattus, rufescens, Thomas, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 57-71. 



Chuha, Musa, H. ; Gachua-indur , Beng. ; Kart yelli, Tam. ; Ghasmiyo, Cing. 



' These Bandicoots were almost all sent to me .specially from other districts, having been captured 

 io: the most part in gardens in the suburbs, 



