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single outlying species of Macroscelides inhabits Barbary and 
Algeria ; while the two genera Petrodromus , and Ehyncocyon, each 
represented by a single species, have only been found at 
Mozambique. 
Family 16. — TUPAIID2E. (3 Genera, 10 species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
N F. ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Palvearctic 
Sub- regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental i 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions, 
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The TupaiidB are squirrel-like shrews, having bushy tails, 
and often climbing up trees, but also feeding on the ground and 
among low bushes. The typical Tupcda (7 species), are called 
ground squirrels by the Malays. They are most abundant in 
the Malay islands and Indo-Chinese countries, but one species 
is found in the Khasia Mountains, and one in the Eastern Ghauts 
near Madras. The small shorter-tailed Hylomys (2 species) is 
found from Tenasserim to Java and Borneo ; while the elegant 
little Ptilocerus (1 species) with its long pencilled tail, is confined 
to Borneo ; (Plate VIII. vol. i.p. 337). The family is therefore 
•especially Malayan, with outlying species in northern and con- 
tinental India. 
Extinct Species. — Oxygomphus, found in the Tertiary deposits 
of Germany, is believed to belong to this family ; as is Omomys , 
from the Pliocene of the United States. 
Family 17. — ERINACEIDaK. (2 Genera, 15 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropioal 
Sub-regions, 
N earctic I 
Sub-regions. 
Pat, ^arctic 
Sub-regions. 
1 Ethiopian I 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Hedgehogs, comprised in the genus Erinaceits (14 species), 
are widely distributed over the Palsearctic, and a part of the 
