MAMMALIA. 



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32. C. (Cricetultjs) fulvtjs. PI. IX, fig. 1; PI. Xb, fig. 3. 



W. Blanf., J. A. S. B., 1875, xliv, Pt. 2, p. 108. 



C. peraffinis Criceto phseo, sed major atque magis fulvus, arenaceo-fulvus vise cinereus. 

 Long, corporis capitisqne 4'5, cauda? 1'4, cmris 0'75, tarsi 0'7 poll. 



1, Young, north of Sanju pass ; 2, Kashghar ; 3, Yangihissar ; 4, 5, Yarkand; 6, 7, Sarikol; 8, Panjah, Wakhan. 

 All skins, except No. 6, which is in spirit. 



Colour above, light sandy brown to sandy grey, no band down the back; lower parts, feet 

 and tail white. Pur very soft, fully half an inch long in the middle of the back in the 

 specimens from Panjah and Sarikol, but only about 0'35 long in those from Yarkand, 

 Yangihissar and Kashghar. The basal portion, except on the abdomen, blackish slaty ; this 

 is the colour of three-quarters of the length on the back. The tips are of two kinds, the 

 majority are pale sandy isabelline ; but a very large number of rather longer hairs, black in 

 colour, scarcely coarser than the rest, are scattered throughout the fur. These black tips are 

 also found on the head above. On the sides they are rather less numerous than on the back, 

 and the colour is rather more rufous. There is a distinct line separating the dark dorsal region 

 from the white abdomen; the white includes the breast, chin, and the lower parts of the 

 cheeks, with the sides of the head. Whiskers very numerous, the upper dark brown, the lower 

 white, the longest about 1t> inches in length, muzzle blunt ; ears moderate, ovate, very thin, 

 nearly naked outside near the base, thinly clad above, with whitish hairs both inside and 

 outside, hairs of the tail short and rather stiff. 



The tubercles beneath the fore-foot are 5 in number, besides the hallucar wart representing 

 the thumb, which is smaller than the others ; three are in front arranged in a triangle, one 

 in advance of the two others, and the two hindmost in line behind the latter pair, the 

 hallucar tubercle being outside and intermediate in position ; on the hind-foot are also 6 

 tubercles, 2 on the outer side, 3 on the inner and one terminal ; the others are not opposite 

 to each other, but alternate ; all are about the same size. 



The following dimensions are (1) from the label of the Kashghar specimen, (2) from the 

 Sarikol specimen in spirit : — 





l 



2 





Inches. ' 



Inches. 



Length of head and body ..... 



. 4-45 



4-4 



Do. of head alone ...... 



. 1-35 



1-2 



Do. of tail ....... 



. 1-45 



1-2 



Do. from snout to ear ..... 



. 1-08 





Do. do. to eye ..... 



. 0-6 





Do. from eye to ear ..... 



. 0-4 





Length of ear from front base to tip 



. 0-75 



0-55 



Do. measured behind .... 



. 0-6 





Do. from orifice ..... 





0-6 



Greatest width of ear ..... 



. 0-6 



0-4 



Length of fore-foot and claws . ' . 



. 0-42 



0-38 



Do. hind-foot and do. .... 



. 0-7 



0-67 



" Claws white, soles flesh coloured, muzzle the same, iris brown." 



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