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DR. J. ANDERSON ON TI1E MAMMALS 



Scitjrus caniceps, Gray. 



2 adult <3 (January), 1 adult 2 (January), and 1 2 (March), 

 Mergui; 1 adult 2 (February), King Island; 1 adult <$ and 2 

 adult 2 (March), Elphinstone Island; and 1 <5 (January), Sul- 

 livan Island. 



These specimens agree with the squirrels from Mergui described 

 by Blyth as exhibiting " merely a faint mark of ferruginous, and 

 this chiefly on the sides of the neck and body "*. 



Scitjrus bicolor, Sparrm. 



1 , Mergui ; 2 King Island ; and 1 <5 , Elphinstone Island. 



Sciurtjs Berdmorei, Blyth. 



1 6 and 1 2 (January), King Island. 



Measurements of the adult female : — 



General colour reddish brown above, punctulatcd with yellow ; 

 under surface pale yellow, but more or less white on the mesial 

 iine and on the chin, but brighter yellow on the front margins 

 of the thighs. The eyelids yellowish white. Two yellowish 

 bands along the sides, the lower band being the broader, and 

 separated from its fellow by a broad brownish-black band, the 

 upper pale line being similarly bordered above. A mesial black 

 bund on the back. The tail bushy; the hairs black at the 

 bases, succeeded by two alternate yellow and black bands, the 

 terminal black band more or less tipped with white. 



Family MuRiDiE. 



Mrs rufescens, Gray. 



2 Mergui, and 4 King Island. 



This rat is very common at Mergui ; the native craft, which 

 I hired to 1;il<e me among the islands, and on which 1 lived 

 for Dearly three months, was infested by it to an intolerable 

 extenl . 



Nose to eye 

 Eye to ear. . , 



Tip of nose to vent 

 Length of tail 



,, hind foot 



0-50 



* Journ. Ah. Hoc. Bcng. vol. xxiv. (1855), p. 475. 



