518 A Collection of Mammalia, fyc.from Cherra Punji, [No. 6. 



N. Tickelli, nobis, p. 157, ante; but is altogether stronger, with 

 conspicuously larger and stronger feet, and remarkably elongated ears. 

 It also does not possess the peculiar small flat incisor, situate poste- 

 riorly to the contact of the ordinary large upper incisor and the 

 canine, seen in N. Tickelli. Colour, a bright pale rusty isabelline- 

 brown above, (the piles black for the basal fourth, then whitish, with 

 rusty extremities,) less vivid on the lower half of the back, and some- 

 what paler below ; a pure silky white spot on the centre of the forehead, 

 others on each shoulder and axilla above, and a narrow stripe of the 

 same along the middle of the back ; face below the forehead deep 

 brown, including the chin : a broad white demi-collar over the throat 

 from ear to ear ; and beneath this is a dark brown demi-collar of 

 similar extent (passing in a narrow streak upward to the chin), and 

 below this again a narrower pure silky white one, commencing from 

 the shoulders — which below it are again deep brown, continued round 

 to separate the ends of the white band below from the white axillary 

 spot above. Membranes marked as in N. Tickelli, or black except 

 the interfemoral which is tawny-red, as also a portion of the lateral 

 membranes towards the body, and the entire limbs and digits. Ear- 

 conch elongate-oval, erect, with tragus a fourth of its length, narrow, 

 semi-lunate, and curved to the front. Length (of an adult female) 

 4f in., of which the tail measures 1 J in. ; expanse 14^ in. ; fore-arm 

 2\ in. ; longest finger 3| in. ; tibia | in. ; foot with claws \ in. Ears 

 externally f in. ; tragus \ in. Procured at Cherra Punji. 



Talpa leucura, nobis, J. A. S. XIX, 215. Of this recently de- 

 scribed species, Mr. Frith has brought thirty-three specimens in spirit, 

 all true to the distinctive characters indicated. In none does the head 

 and body exceed 4^ in. in length. The species, however, inhabits the 

 plain of Sylhet, and not Cherra Punji as formerly stated. 



Sorex Peyrotetii (?), Duvernoy. A headless specimen, affixed 

 to a thorn by some Shrike, as we have several times observed of the 

 common British Shrew by Lanius collurio. Colour darker than 

 usual ; but otherwise it appears identical with specimens we have seen 

 from various parts, as Almorah, S. India, Maulmein, &c. It is the 

 smallest of all known mammalia. 



Tupaia ferruginea, var. Belangeri ; Tupaie de Pegu, Lesson, 

 Zool. de Belanger, t. 4 ; Cladobates Belangeri, Wagner. This race, 



