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Mammals of Burma. |_INo. 1, 



93. S. BABBEI. 

 Seiurus bariei, Blytb, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 875, pi. xxxvi. fig- 3, xviii. p. 603. 



Tenasserim provinces, commoner to the southward, Siam, Cambodja? 

 Hainan? S. China? 



A Malacca specimen in the Leyden Museum is marked Tamias leucotis, 

 Tern. It is closely allied to S. m'elellandii of the E. Himalaya and also 

 of Formosa, but more brightly coloured, having four pale dorsal stripes 

 about equally vivid, alternating with five black " stripes. It is doubtless 

 S. m'elellandii of Cambodja,* of Hainan,! and of China and Formosa;! but 

 a Formosan specimen in the Leyden Museum represents the Himalayan race, 

 S. m'cleUandii. Mason remarks of S. larlei that it abounds in the provinces 

 of Ye, Tavai, and Mergui.§ 



Fam. Muridse. 

 Bats and Mice. 



94. HaPALOMYS LONGICATJBATTJS. 



Bapalomys longkaitdatm, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 296. 



A remarkable murine form, from Schwe Gyen in the valley of the Sitang 

 or neighbouring hills, discovered by Major Berdmore. 



95. Nesokia indica (J. 172). 



Nesolcia indica, Gray ; Mus indicus, Geoff. Probably Tae-kwet of Mason. 

 It has been obtained at Tonghoo by Mr. W. Theobald. || The occur- 

 rence of this common Indian field Rat in the open country of upper Pegu, 

 together with a Hare akin to the Lepus rufieaudatus of the plains of 

 Northern India, and of sundry birds identical with or akin to Indian 

 species which are unknown in the broad belt of forest which fringes the 

 coast of British Burma, indicates the probability of a closer connexion sub- 

 sisting between the faunae of the upper provinces of the two peninsulas than 

 we as yet know of ; our acquaintance with the fauna of "Western Indo-China 

 being chiefly confined to -that of the great maritime belt of forest. The 

 present species is, however, indicated by Mr. Swinhoe from Formosa. 



* P. Z. S. 1861, p. 137. t ibid. 1870, p. 232. + ibid. 1870, p. 634. 



§ In addition to all of the above, I haye seen an undescribed species of medium size 

 from Tonghoo. 



|| P. A. S. B. 1866, p. 240. 



