Mus mayori (Thomas, 1915) . J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 23:415.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, Central Mountains, Pattipola, 6200 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to forested regions of Sri Lanka.

SYNONYMS: pococki .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Coelomys . Phillips (1980) recognized highland ( mayori) and lowland ( pococki) as subspecies, and summarized distributional and biological information for both; also see J. T. Marshall, Jr. (1977b) for discussion of chromatic variation within each form.