OF THE MEEGUI AECHTPELAGO. 



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The general colour was fulvous grey. A feeble line down the 

 back, the muzzle, a spot behind the ear, the feet, and the tip of 

 the tail were brown. 



I also observed it on Owen and Sullivan Islands. 



Order INSECTIVOKA. 



Family Tttpaiid^:. 



TrPAiA feebugfnea, Raffles ; RIajiford, Fauna of Brit. Ind. 

 (1888), p. 210. 



1 cJ, Mergui ; 4 King Island ; and 1 Elphinstone Island. 



Order KODENTIA. 



Family Sciueid^. 



Ptebomys oeal, Tickell-, Anderson, An. Zool. Res. 1S78, 

 p. 279. 



1 adult, Mergui; 1 juv., Sullivan Island (January). 



The adult closely resembles an example (B.M. Register, 

 No. 84. 7. 30. 1) of P. oral from the Nilgiris in the British 

 Museum, and another in the same collection (Reg. No. 45. 8. 

 12. 8) from Travancore, and a third (Reg. No. 65. 5. 20. 2) from 

 an elevation of 4500 to 5000 feet on the Anamallies, but differs 

 from them in the trifling detail of having the latter half of its 

 tail nearly white instead of black. In the British Museum there 

 is a specimen (Reg. No. 85. 8. 1. 125) obtained by Mr. Davison 

 at Kaukaryit in Tenasserim* corresponding to P. cineraceus. 

 Blyth; and another t (Eeg. No. 88. 8. 1. 124) collected by the 

 same naturalist atWimpong Thatone, also in Tenasserim, that is 

 intermediate in its coloration between the Mergui and the young 

 individual from Sullivan Island. In the island of Ceylon also, indi- 

 viduals are found resembling the richly coloured variety occurring 

 on the continent, and others that might be referred to P. cine- 

 raceus. The specimen (77. 3. 14. 11) in the British Museum is 

 an example of the former, and the skin (77. 3. 14. 9) of the latter. 

 Moreover, flying-squirrels of this species well tinged with grey, 

 and in which the chestnut colour of the upper parts is almost 

 absent, are found in the Madras Presidency. 



* Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 67. 

 t Thomas, ibid. 



