1863. | A memoir on the Rats and Mice of India. 345 
Mus exvrrorpes, Blyth, J. 4d. S. XXIV. 721. “This has very 
much the aspect of the British Dormouse (Myoxus AVELLANARI- 
US) ; but what little remains of the tail of the only specimen sent is 
nude, and the colouring is much less bright, though inclining to the 
same hue. It would seem to represent a very distinct division of 
the genus Mus; but the specimen is evidently young, and more and 
better examples are needed for a satisfactory examination. Fur ex- 
ceedingly dense and fine, nearly $ in., long upon the back, and of a 
light brown colour tinged with fawn externally, the piles dusky-ash 
for the basal two-thirds or more; lower parts white, very faintly 
tinged with fawn ; the white purest about the lips and chin: whiskers 
long, copious and fine (like those of Myoxus AvELLANaARIUS) : feet 
large and clad scantily with white hairs ; but a distinct dark brown 
mark upon each hind-foot, reaching almost to the division of the 
toes: ears rather small, ovoid and naked. Length of head and body 
2 in.; tail 
Cherra Punji. 
Mus pecuensis, Blyth, J. dA. S. XXVIII. 295. “ A field Mouse with 
tail longer than the head and body, well clad with hairs that become 
longer to theend. Length to base of tail 34 in.; of tail 32 in. ; ear- 
2; ears posteriorly 13 in.; and tarsa 3 in.” From 
conch 4 in.; and hind-foot #in. These are the measurements of a 
female in spirit. A stuffed male has the tail (vertebra) 44 im. Fur 
very full and dense, pale fulvescent olive-brown on the upper-parts, 
slightly yellowish-white below: whiskers remarkably long.” Not 
much unlike M. syivaTicus in appearance, but the tail longer and 
very conspicuously hairy towards the end, indeed more so throughout 
than in any other mouse I know of, as especially seen when held up 
to the light; but it does not appear to be specially akin to the Ha- 
PALOMYS LONGICAUDATUS, nobis, J. A. S. XXVIII. 296. Both 
were received from Schwe Gyen, on the Sitang river. 
The series next following consists chiefly or wholly of house Mice. 
Mts ursanus, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. N. H., XV. (1845), p. 269: 
M. dubius (?) H., ibid. p. 268: JL musculus apud Elliot et Kelaart : 
M. mami, Gray (undescribed). “The common house Mouse of India 
generally, with Ceylon. Species usually found in the city of Kat- 
Of the diminutive species from China noticed in J. A. S. XXIX. 90, the speci- 
men has been lost or mislaid by one of our taxidermists, to whom I gave the 
skin to be mounted, 
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