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With round 7iahed Tails, 



Mus Pilorides. M. cauda longimcula squamafa frmcafo-oBtusa, 



corpore albidu. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1 26. 

 "Whitish Rat, with longish, scaly, obtusely-truncated tail. 

 ^. Castor Cauda lineari tereti. Brown Jam. p. 484. f 

 Piloris. Biif. jo.p. 2. 



This species is found in India and the Indian 

 islands, and in size nearly equals the Guinea-Pig. 

 Its colour is whitish, with a cast of grey-ferru- 

 ginous on the back, and of cinereous on the ab- 

 domen : the tail is longish, nearly naked, scaly^ 

 and obtuse at the extremity. A variety of this 

 animal is found in the American islands, which 

 seems to differ from the above in being of a darker 

 colour on the back, and in having a much shorter 

 tail. Perhaps it may be a distinct species, but 

 the history of both seems at present not suffi- 

 ciently clear to enable us to determine this point 



V. II. p. I. 



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