Sikkim Mountain Vole

The Sikkim mountain vole has dark brown fur above, dark grey underparts and a strip of ochre-brown where the two meet. The feet are brownish white above, and the tail is two-coloured, brown above and white below. Head and body length is 97–119 mm and the tail 30–52 mm. It is very similar to the Chinese scrub vole and can be told apart only by its teeth (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its range extends from Bhutan, West Bengal and Sikkim in India through western, central and eastern Nepal, at altitudes above 2,500 m, and it is also in southern Tibet at 2,100–3,700 m. The cached account gives no information on its diet, behaviour or breeding (Wikipedia, general species account).