Mammals Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott on the Natuna Islands: Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. III, pp. 111-138Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith)
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Mammals Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott on the Natuna Islands: Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. III, pp. 111-138
Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith)
Abbott, William Louis, 1860-1936; Mammals -- Indonesia -- Natuna Islands
_Remarks._--While the two specimens agree in all essential
characters they differ in numerous minor details. The skin from
Pulo Lingung is somewhat darker than the type, but the difference
is due to the shade of the brown wash, not to any extension of the
black. The skull of this specimen is more rounded posteriorly than
that of the type, and the rostrum is shorter. Both specimens show
conclusively that their relationships are with the _Sus cristatus_ of
the Malay Peninsula and not with the _S. longirostris_ of Borneo, a
case which finds an exact parallel in the giant squirrels.
MUS INTEGER sp. nov.
_Type._--Adult male (skin and skull) No. 104837 U. S. National
Museum. Collected on Sirhassen Island, South Natunas, June 7, 1900.
Original number 455.
_Characters._--A large robust species with coarse but not spinous
fur. Relationships with _Mus validus_ Miller, from Trong, Lower Siam,
and _Mus mülleri_ Jentink from Sumatra. Differs from the former in
smaller size and in the absence of the anterior outer tubercle of the
last upper molar, and from the latter in larger size, and yellowish
brown (not white) underparts.
_Color._--Back and sides a fine grizzle of black and dull
ochraceous (the exact shade intermediate between the ochraceous and
ochraceous-buff of Ridgway), the two colors nearly equally mixed on
back, but the ochraceous in excess on sides. Underparts and inner
surface of legs buff. An ill defined drab-gray median line from
throat to pubic region. Head darker and more glossy than back, the
cheeks distinctly washed with gray. Lips and chin drab-gray. Feet an
indefinite brown, darker on metapodials. Ears essentially naked, dark
brown. Tail dark brown throughout. Underfur gray (Ridgway, pl. II,
No. 8), becoming paler on under parts where it fades irregularly into
the general buff.
_Fur._--The fur is exactly as in _Mus validus_, that is the grooved
bristles are so slender that their true nature is not apparent
without use of lens. On middle of back the mass of the fur is about
17 mm. in length, the long terete hairs scattered through it reaching
about 30 mm. On rump the fur is longer but not conspicuously so, and
there is no noticeable increase in length or abundance of the terete
black hairs.
_Tail, feet and mammæ._--Tail slightly more coarsely scaled than in
_Mus validus_; 9 rings to the centimeter at middle. Hairs scarcely
noticeable except toward tip, where they somewhat exceed the breadth
of the rings.
Feet heavy and robust. Thumb short, with a flat blunt nail. Soles and
palms naked, the former with six well developed tubercles, the latter
with five.
Mammæ, p. 2--2, i. 2--2 = 8.
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