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mens, however, assigned to Nepal, are enumerated in Mr. Gray's Catalogue of 

 the mammalia in the British Museum. A very fine example, procured (or the skin 

 purchased) at Simla by Capt. Thomas, 39th Regt. 13. N. I, and by him pre- 

 sented to the Society. This is perhaps an excessively stretched skin of Pt. mag- 

 nificus ; but, in new pelage, the white tips to the fur are very little developed, 

 and there is no pale colour upon the shoulders, nor on the sides and membrane 

 above : under-parts throughout rufescent-white. Tail tipped with black as in 

 Pt. magnificus, which is not represented in Hardwicke's figure of Pt. albiven- 

 ter, though the tail of the latter is so short that it looks as if it had been mu- 

 tilated of its black tip, as was doubtless the case with the original.* 



4. Pt. magnificus, (Hodgson,) J. A. S. V, 231. Specimen from Nepal, 

 purchased of a Bhootea. Inhabits also the hill ranges of Assam, from whence 

 Major Jenkins has favoured the Society with (imperfect) skins, entirely 

 resembling those from the Himalaya proper. 



5. Pt. nobilis, (Gray,) Ann. Mag. N. H. 1842, p. 263 : Sciuropterus chry- 

 sotrix, Hodgson, J. A. S. XIII, 67. Very fine specimen, with the pale 

 dorsal streak complete, presented by Willis Earle, Esq. ; another, with dorsal 

 streak between the shoulders only, and merely a slight trace over the croup, 

 presented by Dr. Campbell ; both from Darjeeling : a third, without a trace 

 of dorsal streak, purchased of a Bhootea. Neither of these has any whitish 

 tips to the fur, as in Pt. magnificus j but, in all other respects, the last 

 especially approximates Pt. magnificus so very closely, that I cannot but 

 doubt its distinctness as a species. 



6. Pt. nitidus, Cuvier. Adult and young, from Malacca, presented by 

 the Rev. F. J. Lindstedt. Hab. also Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, apud 

 Schinz. 



The remaining species, with shorter and distichous tail, appertain to the 

 division Sciuropterus, F. Cuv. ; and all of them are well defined as species. 



7. Sciurojoterus caniceps, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H, X, 262 : Pteromys senex, 

 Hodgson, J. A. S. XIII, 68. Two specimens from Darjeeling : one present- 

 ed by the lady of W. H. Oakes, Esq. C. S. ; the other procured by exchange. 



8. Sc.fimbriatus, Gray, M. N. H. n. s., Vol. I, p. 84. Two specimens : 

 one from Simla, presented by L. C. Stewart, Esq., now of H. M. 29th Regt. ; 

 the other in the Museum when I took charge of it. Inhabits the N. W. 

 Himalaya. The colour of the upper-parts of this species resembles that of 

 an English wild Rabbit. 



N. B. A species seemingly allied to Sc. fimbriatus, but one-fourth larger, 

 was figured by Sir A. Burnes as the Moosh i baldar of the mountain dis- 

 tricts of Nijrow, and identified by him as the "Flying Fox" of the transla- 

 tion of Baber's memoirs (p. 145). A length of 2ft. is assigned to it ; where- 

 as I doubt (from examination of several specimens) if Sc. fimbriatus would 

 ever exceed 19in, at the most. The colour of the upper-parts is represented 

 as pale fulvescent ashy-brown, darker on the limbs ; tail broad and bushy, 

 and tipped with blackish : under-parts dull white, with a ferruginous margin 

 to the membrane underneath. If verified, it might rank as Sc. Baberi, nobis. 



9. Sc. alboniger, Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 231 : Sc. Turnbullii, Gray, P. Z. 

 S. 1837, p. 68 ; M. N. H. n. s. I, 68. Inhabits Nepal, Sikim, Bootan ; 

 common at Darjeling. Three specimens, presented by C. S. Bonnevie, Esq., 

 Mrs. Saxon, and J. Shave, Esq. 



10. Sc. villosus, nobis, n. s. .- referred to Sc. sagitta in Mr. Walker's 

 Catalogue of Assamese mammalia, Calc. Journ. N. H. Ill, 266. Two speci- 



* The Pt. melanotis, Gray, M. N. H., n. s. I, 584, and originally assigned to Nepal, is 

 referred to Java in Mr. Gray's subsequent catalogue of the British Museum collection 

 of mammalia, and there identified with Pt. Diardii, Tern., and with the Pt. nitidus apud 

 Gray of Hardwicke's ' Illustrations.' 



