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igi6.] Robinson : Vertebrates <strong>of</strong> Pulau Panjang. 65<br />
rufous." Resemb-<br />
colour is more clearlj t ufous or " vinai > ms<br />
lin • Sc. : luteus in <strong>the</strong>se respects but a much smaller form.<br />
Measurements: External measurements oi <strong>the</strong> type, taken<br />
in <strong>the</strong> flesh: hi a 1 and bo ly, 185, 17'"': tail, 162, [158) : :<br />
Hf.,<br />
1 1'5, |oi ear, 15 mm., I r.6<br />
Average and extremes <strong>of</strong> ten specimens; head and body,<br />
183, (170-192); tail, 160-5. (142-175); hind-foot, 42^3,<br />
(40-46.5); ear, r.6, (15-18). Cranial measurements <strong>of</strong> type:<br />
5<br />
" 1 : condylobasilai length, 39-1<br />
greatesl length. 45-8 1 4<br />
(38-8): diastema, 10-4 (10-3): zygomatic breadth. 28-3 :6 -<br />
o)<br />
median length <strong>of</strong> nasals, 1 y 3 (13*1) ; upper molar series includ-<br />
ing pm 3 8-9, (8-3).<br />
Average and extremes <strong>of</strong>ten specimens: greatest length.<br />
indylo- basilar length, 401, (38*2 42^0)<br />
47'i. i (45*6 48 5);<br />
diastema, io'o 1 io'o-i i"2) ; zygomatic breadth, 28-4 (2 7'8-29.3);<br />
median length <strong>of</strong> nasals. 14-0 1 ij'.i- 14'M : maxillary tooth row<br />
including pm 3 , 8*9, (8*4 9-3) mm. For detailed measurement<br />
see table on p. 67.<br />
Specimens examined. Fifteen, all from Pulau Mapor.<br />
RATTUS SURIFER LINGENSIS 1<br />
Miller).<br />
1 :<br />
><br />
1<br />
Mus lingensis, Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. ii, p. 266<br />
(1900); id. Proc. Acid. X. it. Sri. Philadelphia, 1902, p. 154:<br />
id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxi, p. 266 1906 Lyon, op it, xxxi,<br />
p. 655 (1907); Thos. and Wrought. Journ. Fed. <strong>Malay</strong> <strong>States</strong><br />
Mus. iv, p. 125<br />
484 (1909).<br />
(1909); Lyon, Proc. U.S. Nat Mus. xxxvi, p.<br />
A very large series <strong>of</strong> this rat was collected on<br />
which for <strong>the</strong> present we refer to this rare The<br />
Mapor<br />
colour<br />
characters assigned to it as compared with E. surifer from <strong>the</strong><br />
mainland h Id i I. viz.. a dull, more clay-coloured tint with<br />
much less ichra is orange on <strong>the</strong> flanks and a greatei admixture<br />
<strong>of</strong> black on <strong>the</strong> back, bul we arc unable to see that <strong>the</strong><br />
Rhio foi ni has a narrower palate as stated bj Miller. The tail<br />
is perhaps, 011 an average, relatively shorter than in <strong>the</strong> mainland<br />
form and <strong>the</strong> skull is somewhat more heavily built with a<br />
greater development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
-<br />
1 1<br />
Tin- skull dimi n ion even if equally adult animals from<br />
<strong>the</strong> same island are compared are, as Lyon notes, variable.<br />
m Karimon and Kundnr sei m to be <strong>the</strong> largest<br />
and those from Bati im and Bintang on <strong>the</strong> whole dullest in<br />
tint. The race i much more closely related to those inhabitin;;<br />
<strong>the</strong> is! mds f tru east oasl <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Peninsula than to <strong>the</strong><br />
lightly built, bright coloured animal found in Singapore.<br />
Epi'mys surifer leonis (Robinson and Kloss). About fifty specimens,<br />
adult and young, were obtained. For measurements<br />
See p. 68.<br />
* Measurements in paren<strong>the</strong>ses <strong>the</strong>se <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> type <strong>of</strong> Sciurus vittatus<br />
famulus from Pulau Dayang nr. Pulau At.r (Robinson. Ann and Mag Nat.<br />
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