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Genus MYOXUS. 



Myoxus, Schreber Saugeth., iv, p. 824 (1792). 



Myoxiis pictus. 



Myoxus pictus, 5/fl«/or<i Ann. Mag, N. H. (4) xvi, p. 311 (1875); id. 

 Persia, p. 51, pi. iv, fig. 2. 



Distribution. — Persia north of Ispahan. 



a. Ale. i Kohrud, N. of Ispahan, W. T. Blanford, 



7,000 ft. 

 [Co-type of M. pictus, Blanford.] 



Myoxus glis. 



Sciurus^lis, Linntsus Sysi. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 87 (1766). 



Mus glis, Pallas Nov. Sp. Quad, e Glir., p. 88 (1778). 



Myoxus glis, Zimmerman Geogr. Geschichte., ii, p. 351 (1780) ; Blasius 



Saugeth Deutsch, p, 292; Blyth Cat., no. 350, p. 109. 

 Glis esculentus, Blumenbach Handb. Naturges., 12th ed., p. 67 (1830). 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe. 

 «. Stuffed. France A. Malherbe (1854), A.S.B. 



Genus MUSCARDINUS. 



Muscardinus, Kaup Entw. Europ. Thierw., p. 139 (1829)*. 



Muscardinus avellanarius. 



Mus avellanarius, Linnisus Syst. Nat,, 12th ed., i, p. 83 (1766). 



Myoxus muscardinus, Schreber Saugeth, iv, p. 835 (1792). 



Myoxus avellanarius, Desmarest Mamm., p. 295 (1820) ; Blasius Saugeth, 



Deutsch., p. 297'; Blyth Cat., no. 351, p. 109. 

 Muscardinus avellanarius, Kaup Entw. Europ. Thierw., p. 139 (1829)*. 



Distribution, — The whole of Europe, including the British 

 Islands. 



a-A. 2 Stuffed. England. A. D. Bartlett (1843), A.S.B. 



ce. 3 Ale. ^ 9 S .. A. D. BartleLt (1865). 



Genus HYDROMYS. 



Hydromys, Et, Geoff. St. Hil. Ann. Mus., Paris, vi, p. 81 (1805). 



Hydromys chrysogaster. 



Hydromys chtysogaster, Et. Geoff. St. ffil. Ann. Mus., Paris, vi, p. 81, 

 pi. xxxvi (1805) ; Gould Mamm. Austr,, iii, pi. xxiv ; Blyth Cat., no. 398, 

 p. 121 ; Collett. Zool. J. B., ii, p. 841. 



