VITt, 
On the Screx. Glis.. 
By Messrs. DIARD ann DUVAUCEL,. 
Communicated — 
By Mason Generar HARDWICKE. | 
" To the Secretary of the Asiatick Society. 
Sir, a 
[ HIAVE the honor to lay before the Society a drawing and description 
of a small quadruped, native of Penang and other islands in the Indian 
seas: they are offered on the authority of the French. naturalist M. Drarp,. 
and presented by the Honorable: Sir fe erearen Rares, | to be. disposed: 
Ai 
of at. the pleasure of the le. A 
I wave seen this hee : anid the drawing F believe is pretty 
correct: a living one was brought to Bengal by a medical gentleman 
some months ago: it runs about the house, tame, but would not allow 
itself to be caught for close inspection: though at liberty to run out of 
doors, whenever it likes, it shows no disposition to leave it’s quarters, and 
~ evinces some attachment to the family; for whenever strangers enter the 
house it shows a disquietude by a chattering like noise. 
