Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Alticola roylei Gray, 1842 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:265 . TYPE LOCALITY: India , Kumaon . DISTRIBUTION: W Himalayas; recorded only from N Kumaon and N Himachal Pradesh (Lahul region) of N India . SYNONYMS: cautus . COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Once considered the broadest-ranging species of Alticola in central Asia ( Corbet, 1978c ), but with the removal of argentatus and its synonyms ( Rossolimo, 1989 ), the geographic and morphological definition of roylei conforms to that presented by Hinton (1926).