58 MA.MMALIA. 



The Bandicoot or Pig Rat ; Sanscrit, Indur ; Hind., Ghous or Ghus; 

 Canarese, Heggin ; Telegu, Pandikoku ; Singalese, Oora Meeyo. 



Distribution. — This fat is apparently restricted to the Indian 

 peninsula strictly speaking {i.e., south of the great alluvial plains); 

 it also occurs commonly in Ceylon; it has frequently been reported 

 from Calcutta, but on investigation it is usually found to be the 

 large Mus decumanus or perhaps the rarer Nesokia nemorivagus 

 that has been mistaken for the true bandicoot. 



Nesokia nemorivagus. 



Mus nemorivagus, Hodgson J. A. S. B., v, p. 234 (1836) ; id. Ann. Mag. 



N. H,, XV, p. 266 ; Horsfield Cat. E. I. Mus, p. 141. 

 Mus setifer, Horsfield Zool. Res., with plate (1824); id. Cat. E. I. Mus., 



p. 142. 

 Mus macropus, Hodgson Ann. Mag. N. H., xv, p. 268 [juv.J (1845). 

 Mus bandicota, aptid Cantor J. A. S. B., xv, p. 253 (1846); Blyth 



y. A, S. B., xliv, Burma List, p. 39 ; Swinhoe P. Z. S., 1870, p. 635. 

 Nesokia hydrophila, apud Gray Cat. Hodgs, Coll., ist ed., p. ig; [nee 



Hodgs.'] 1847. 

 Mus (Nesokia) elliotanus, Anderson J. A. S. B., xlvii, p. 231, pi. xiv, fiss. 



e.h(i878). 

 Mus (Nesokia) nemorivagus, Thomas P. Z. S., p. 528 (1881). 



Distribution. — This form seems to replace Nesokia bandicota in 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Bengal and Assam ; it is also recorded from For- 

 mosa, and probably ejrtends through Burma to the Malay Penin- 

 sula a^nd some of the islands. 



a. Ale. skull g Purneah, 28-5-72 J Anderson. 



b. Ale. skull $ juv. „ „ J. Anderson. 

 C Ale. skull ^ All pur nr. Calcutta J. Anderson. 



[The above three are co-types of Mus (Nesokia) elliotanus, Anderson.] 



d. Ale. skull 3 Sibsagar, Assam S. E. Peal. 



