No. 381 Mus Ouang-Thomæ. — The Kiangsi Rat
Habitat.—Kiangsi in Thibet.
Description.—A tawny grey above, mixed with long hairs, tipped with brown, greyish below; between the fore-paws a crescent of pure white, which is a distinguishing mark of the species.
Size.—A little less than Mus rattus, which is about seven inches long; tail an inch longer.
This rat Professor Milne-Edwards describes from a single specimen; it is apparently rare, and was named after the Abbé David’s Chinese servant—‘Recherches sur les Mammifères,’ p. 290.
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