1863. | Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 73 
Report of the Curator, Zoological Department. 
(Continued from Vol. XXXTI. p. 345.) 
Ill. W. T. Blanford, Esq., of the Indian Geological Survey. 
A collection of sundries from different parts of Burma. 
MAMMALIA. 
Presspytis PHayretr, nobis; from Arakan; Nycticrsus TEmM- 
MINCKIL and SCOTOPHILUS COROMANDELIANUS, from Thayet Myo, on 
the Irawadi (being two of the commonest Bats throughout India, 
Burma, and the Malayan peninsula). Also Rurzomys BaDIvs, 
Hodgson, from Arakan. 
TUPAIA FERRUGINEA (var. peguana, Lesson). Also a very common 
species in the Burmese countries, ascending northward to the Khasya 
hills, and likewise inhabiting the vicinity of Dorjiling. Specimen 
from “ Arakan mountains.” 
*ScIuRUS BLANFORDII, nobis, 2. s. (described Vol. XXXI, J. 4.8. 
p- 333.) From the neighbourhood of Ava—“ common on the Shan 
hills, less so in the neighbourhood of the river near Ava.” 
Mus conconor, nobis, young described, J. A. S. XXVITL, 295 
and adult (unnamed, noticed in preceding page). “ House Rats, 
from Thayet Myo.” This is rather a great Mouse than a Rat, if 
the distinction can be understood ; very like M. muscunvs, except 
in being much larger, with a proportionally longer tail. Length of 
adult male, taken out of spirit and the fur dried—head and body 
4 in., and tail 53 in.; ear-conch (posteriorly) 5% in. ; hind-foot 1 in. 
Its close similitude to M. muscuuus renders further description un- 
necessary ; except that the paler colour of the lower-parts has a - 
peculiar reddish-sandy or faint vinaceous tinge (a sort of ésabelline 
hue), and the fur of the back is distinctly spinous to the sense of 
touch. In the thatched roofs of the Burmese up the Salwin river, 
I several times observed a small long-tailed Rat, which I very 
strongly suspect, indeed feel quite sure, was of the present kind, 
but I was unable to obtain a specimen.f An old stuffed example in 
the Society’s collection, from Malacca, seems also, perhaps, to be 
* J find that I have referred to this in J. 4. S. XXXJ, 391. 
¥ Since writing the above, I have been assured, positively, that CORVUS SPLEN- 
DENS, of either race, does not occur, either at Pinang, Malacca, or Singapore. 
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