32 Mammals of Burma, [Xo. 1, 



with T. ferruginea, though unnoticed in Dr. Cantor's " Catalogue of the 

 Mammalia of the Malayan Peninsula ;" and perhaps the most extraordinary 

 instance in the class of what has been termed " mimicry" occurs in a Squirrel, 

 Ehinosciurus tupaiades, Gray, differing little, if at all from Sciurus laticau- 

 datus, S. Miiller, of Sumatra and Borneo, which inhabits the same district. 

 Not only does this rodent resemble T\ ferruginea in size and the texture and 

 colouring of its fur, but the muzzle is singularly elongated, and there is even 

 the pale shoulder-streak usual in the genus Tupaia. As a group of Inseeti- 

 vora the Tupayes would seem to/' mock" the Squirrels; but the particular 

 species of Squirrel referred to again specially simulates the Tupaia ferruginea 

 of the same locality. 



Another Malayan species of the order Inseetivora, the Gymnura rafflesii, 

 Yigors and Horsfield ( Viverra gymnura, Raffles), occurs probably in Mergui, 

 and is doubtfully mentioned as having been received from Arakan,* probably 

 by mistake. This remarkable animal is not unlikely to be the " Opossum" 

 of Colonel Low,f for it is difficult to imagine what other animal could be 

 alluded to by that name. 



Fam. Erinaceidse. 



66. Hylomys suillus. 



R. peguensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 294; Anderson, Trans. Z. S., vol. viii. 

 p. 453. 



Procured by Major Berdmore in the valley of the Sitang river. The 

 Bornean specimens which I saw at Leyden appeared, without actual com- 

 parison, to be quite identical. 



Fam. Soricidse. 



Sub-fam. Soricin^ (Shrews). 

 67. Pachyitea iistdica (J. 69). 



Sorex indicus, Geoff. ; 8. cwrulescens, Shaw ; Pachyura indica, Anderson, P. Z. S. 

 1873, p. 231. KyweUsuk (Mason). 



Indian Musk Shrew. The common pale grey Musk Shrew, vulgarly 

 called the "Musk Eat" in India, occurs in the Tenasserim provinces, where, 

 if I mistake not, it is the prevalent species. 



* Calc. Journ. N. II. ii. p. 147. 



f J. R. A. S. hi. p. 50, and As. Res. xvii. p. 159. 



