TUPAIA TANA. 
Orb. IIF* Carnassiers, Cuvier. 2^ Famille. Les Insectivores. 
Ord. HI. Fer^, Linn. Syst. 
Ord. XII. Falculata, IUiger. 
TUPAIA, Raffles, Act. Soc. Linn. Land. 
Character genericus. — Vide Tupaia javanica. 
Tupaia rostro longissimo, corpore supra fusco et nigreseente vario subtus strigaque 
scapular! ex badio rufescente. 
Tupai-tana, of the Inhabitants of Sumatra. 
Tupaia tana. Sir T. S. Bafflers Cat. of a Zool ColL made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 
Soc. XIII, p. 257. 
THE Tupaia tana has already been enumerated in the account of the Tupaia 
javanica. We owe the discovery to Sir Stamford Raffles, who having given a 
description of it in his Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made in Sumatra, 
forwarded the first specimen to England. An examination of this having with great 
liberality been afforded to me by the Board of Curators of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, I have been enabled to give some details regarding its external appearance, 
its teeth, and dimensions. I have also added a figure of the animal, and those 
peculiarities in the species which will tend to illustrate the genus Tupaia in general. 
The Tupaia tana is the largest species of the genus hitherto discovered. Its 
dimensions are the following : — 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the body and head, from the extremity of the nose 
to the root of the tail 10 5 
the entire head 2 6 
...... . the rostrum, or attenuated part of the head 1 4 
the neck , f 1 0 
