1851.] species of Birds inhabiting Ceylon, 185 



Four Shrews are enumerated by the names Sorex murinus, S. 

 montanus, Kelaart, (p. 163, ante), S. feroculus, Kelaart, (S, 

 macropus, nobis, p. 163, ante), and S. ferrugineus, Kelaart, describ- 

 ed as follows : — 



" Fur soft, ferruginous-brown washed with blue ; smaller than the 

 S. montanus ; feet and legs naked. Large secreting glands on the 

 pubis — odour very disagreeable. No cetse or" [misprint for seba- 

 ceous ?~\ " glands could be traced on the other two species, nor had 

 they any of the smell." From this last remark, we infer that S. mon- 

 tanus et S. ferrugineus of Dr. Kelaart are brought together under 

 the name montanus in p. 1 63, ante. If so, we still think them to be 

 identical. 



With reference to the " large black Shrew" mentioned in p. 1 64, 

 ante, Dr. Kelaart adds : "There are two other and larger black Shrews 

 than any of those now described — one in the possession of Mr. 

 Thwaites of Peradenia, — and the other has a very powerful musky odour, 

 stronger even than in S. murinus, — occasionally seen in the godowns 

 at Kandy, — of which further notice hereafter." In epistold he further 

 remarks, " there is also a Tupaia, I think." 



Of Murid^e, Dr. Kelaart's Mus arboreus, Buch. Ham. MS., is 

 M. nemoralis, nobis, p. 168, ante ; — M. dubius, Kelaart, is most 

 probably M. indicus, GeofTroy, apud nos, p. 167, ante ; M. tetra- 

 gonurus, Kelaart, we take to be M. rufescens, Gray ; M. muscu- 

 lus apud Kelaart, to be M. Manei ; and M. asiaticus, Gray, apud 

 Kelaart, (" Paddy-field Rat,") is undescribed. 



Of Porcupines, he writes (in epistold) : " I am quite certain of 

 Hystrix leucura, Sykes, (v. hirsutirostris). I have compared 

 it with Waterhouse's description, and it quite corresponds ; so that H. 

 zeylonensis makes a second species of the genus in Ceylon." He 

 terms it Heetava. 



Lastly, of the genus Sus, Dr. Kelaart writes (in epistold) : "I am 

 inclined to think that there are two species or varieties in the island : 

 the Newera Elia boar, and the low country S. zeylonensis. I will 

 send you skulls, &c." 



These annotations are necessary to place Dr. Kelaart's paper en 

 rapport with the present article. — E. B. 



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