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ed in front. Ears covered with short hair. Inhabits India, Bombay.” 
No dimensions given! 
Syn. Mus hirsutus, Elliot ; the Gulandi of the Canarese. ‘“ About the size of 
MW. lanuginosus, or a little larger,—but differs in living entirely above ground, 
in a habitation constructed of grass and leaves, generally in the root of a bush 
at no great height from the ground, often indeed touching the surface. The 
head is longer than that of the Mettade, but the muzzle is blunt, rounded, and 
more obtuse, and covered with rough hair, The face and cheeks are also rougher 
than those of other Rats; the ears round and villose, the eyes moderate; the 
whiskers long and very fine. The colour is an olive-brown above, mixed with 
fulvous ; beneath yellowish-tawny ; sometimes paler, or light yellowish-grey. 
“A male Golunda measured—length of body 64, of tail 43,; of head 175; of 
ear =&, weight nearly 3 oz.” 
Hor habits, vide Hlliot, loc. cit. 
A number of specimens in spirit presented to the Society’s Museum 
by Mr. Elliot are considerably smaller, though appearing to be adult, 
and a female is sent with its born young; these accord, however, 
precisely with the ‘Coffee Rat’ of Ceylon, as described by the late 
Dr. Kelaart. He presented the Society with a specimen which 
is unquestionably identical in species with Mr. Elliot’s specimens 
sent by the latter to the Society’s Museum. 
G. corrzus, Mus coffeus, Kelaart, Prodromus (1852), p. 67. 
“ Head and body 43 in.; tail4in. Fur thick, stiff; above, fulvous- 
brown, mixed with black ; beneath, tawny-grey. Hairs of upper-parts, 
flattened, ashy-grey, tipped yellow, with some thinner and longer 
ones, also tipped yellow, with subterminal black hand. Under fur 
soft, and of a light lead-colour. Face and cheeks rough. Kars moder- 
ate, subovate, villous ; yellow-ferruginons. Tail round, tapering, scaly 
and villous ; its upper surface dark brown—lower surface yellowish. 
Cutting teeth yellow. Upper ones grooved as in GERBILLUS. 
“This is the Rat which [in Ceylon] is so destructive to coffee- 
trees. Whole plantations are sometimes deprived of buds and blos- 
soms by these Rats. They are found in all the higher parts of the 
Kandian provinces. The attention of EKuropeans has only been 
drawn to them since coffee-planting commenced in the island. hey 
appear to be migratory ; and are not always seen in coffee estates: 
when they do visit the cultivated parts, their numbers are so great, 
_ that in one day more than a thousand have been known to be killed 
on one estate. In clearing forests, the nests of these Rats are met 
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