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Mammals of Burma. 



[No. 1, 



specimen of this animal when in Upper Martaban, but the skin of it got 

 spoiled ; and I at once recognized the same species in two drawings of it as 

 obtained in Siam by Capt. Finlayson. It has likewise been obtained at 

 Yanangeen, on the Irawadi. It is even included, together with R. sinensis, 

 Gray, in Mr. H. Walker's " Catalogue of the Mammalia of Assam" {ibid. iii. 

 p. 267) ; but both species are there in need of verification. Mason remarks 

 that "this animal, which burrows under old bamboo roots, resembles, " to, 

 some extent, a a Marmot more than a Eat, yet it has much of the Eat in its 

 habits. I one night caught a specimen gnawing a coco-nut, while camping 

 out in the jungles.' ' According to Mason the Byhais call the Bamboo Eat 

 Ehai, and they say that there is the Eamboo Xhai, the Eeed Khai, the 

 Maranta Khai, and the Wte, a very small species of the same tribe." In 

 JR. sumatrensis the fur is thin and bristly. The other three here given are 

 smaller animals, with shorter tail and the fur soft and dense. 



Fam. Hystricidse. 



Porcupines. 

 *109. Hysteix bekgaleistsis ? (J. 205). 

 Hystrix bengalensis, Blyth; H. malabarica, Selater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 353, pi. xvi, 

 Phyoo, Tenasserim (Mason). 



The Porcupine of Arakan appears to be the same as that of Assam 

 and of Eastern and Lower Bengal, the skull of which is not tumid, as 

 in H. leucura, Sykes. Moreover, I cannot perceive (to judge from the 

 stuffed specimen in the British Museum), that the adult H. malabarica, Day, 

 differs from it in any respect. I have only seen small Arakan specimens, 

 however, and will not be too confident that I am right in referring them to 

 the present species. 



110. H. LO^GICAUDA ? (J. 206). 

 Hystrix longicauda, Marsden ; Acantheonjavanieum, P. Cuv., Mem. Mus. ix. 1. 1, fig. 3,4. 



I also give this Malayan species with hesitation, though I believe it to 

 be that which inhabits the Tenasserim provinces. 



There is also H. alopmis, Hodgson,* from Nipal, which seems to be one 

 and the same with IT. grotei, Gray,f from Malacca, remarkable for having 

 but one black ring on its white quills. The skins of Porcupines when dried, 

 and afterwards relaxed and set up in museums, are usually in wretched 



* J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 772, t. 32. 



f [P. Z. S. 1866, p. 306, pi. xxxi. This species is referred by Mr. Selater to E. 

 longicauda, Marsden, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 234.— Ed.] 



