sh albino above mentioned for three.

NO. 360. MUS CRASSIPES.
_The Large-footed Mouse_ (_Jerdon's No. 188_).

HABITAT.--Mussoorie and, according to Jerdon, the Neilgherries.

DESCRIPTION.--This is stated to be like _M. homourus_, but the
difference is well marked in a very much longer tail and much larger
feet.

SIZE.--Head and body, 2-3/4 inches; tail, 3/4 inch; hind foot, 3/4
inch.

NO. 361. MUS SUBLIMIS.

HABITAT.--Ladakh, 13,000 feet.

DESCRIPTION.--Brown above; whitish below; the colours gradually
blending; fur soft and long; all except the tips dark slaty grey,
the terminal portions of the shorter hairs being light brown, and
of the longer hairs dark brown; upper whiskers black; lower white;
ears oval; feet thinly clad with short light brown hairs; tail with
short bristly hairs, dusky brown above, whitish below; tail longer
than head and body.

SIZE.--Head and body, 2.6 inches; tail, 3.05; length of hind foot,
0.83 inch.

Mr. Blanford, who named the above species, which was procured in the
expedition to Yarkand, is doubtful whether it may not be referable
to the last species.

NO. 362. MUS PACHYCERCUS.

HABITAT.--Yarkand.

DESCRIPTION.--Sandy brown above; under-parts white; fur soft and
very like _M. bactrianus_; ears large, rounded, hairy; feet clad
above with white hair; soles naked; tail thick, shorter than head
and body, and thinly clad with white bristles throughout; skin dark
above, pale below; incisors deep yellow.

SIZE.--Head and body, 2.35 inches; tail, 1.9 to 2 inches.

Mr. Blanford says this is a house mouse. It is figured in Blanford's
'Mammalia of the Second Yarkand Mission.'

NO. 363. MUS ERYTHRONOTUS.

HABITAT.--Yarkand, Persia.

DESCRIPTION.--Rufous, washed with blackish above, white below,
abruptly separated; hairs on the back are slaty at the base, then
blackish and bright ferruginous at the tips, the extreme points being
black, except on the sides, where the black tip is wanting; upper
whiskers black, lower white; ears large, rounded, naked; feet white
above, dusky and naked below; tail equal to head and body, nearly
naked. Mammae six.

SIZE.--Head and body, 4 inches; tail, 4.2 inches.

This mouse is figured and carefully described in Blanford's 'Eastern
Persia,' vol. ii. p. 35.

NO. 364. MUS CERVICOLOR.
_The Fawn-coloured Field Mouse_.

HABITAT.--Bengal, Nepal, Southern India.

DESCRIPTION.--"Distinguished by its short tail. Above dull fawn,
below so