MAMMALIA KODEM'JA. O/ 



RODENTIA. 



SCIURINA. The Squirrels have not, tins time, received 

 such considerable additions as in the previous year. 



As a new species, Gray (Zool. of the Voy. of Sulphur, i, p. 3-i, pi. 13, 

 figs. 2, IS, figs. 7, 12) describes his Set /eras griseo-caudatus, from the west 

 coast of America, and distinguishes it from all the American species by the 

 distinct black and white colour of the upper side of the tail, and the yellow 

 and black rings of the hair of which it consists, and which are seen only on 

 the under side. The latter character distinguishes it from Sciurits Boof/ii/c, 

 Gray (formerly named by him Sciunis Richafflsoitii), which is much darker, 

 with black feet, white belly, black caudal hairs, except at the tip. He has 

 also figured this species in pi. 13, fig. 1; besides which also, Sciunis 

 Ui-ldieri (pi. 12, fig. 2) and Turn/as tlindsii (pi. 12, fig. 1.) 



Waterhouse has given more copious descriptions than the previous, of 

 tirtttrttx Stangeri, mfobfuchiatus, and erythroyenys, all from Fernando Po. 

 (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 55.) He has also described (1. c. xi, p. 531) a 

 variety of Sc. Rqfflesii, or Prevostii, from Borneo. 



A new Indian Flying Squirrel is the Pteromys inornatus, 

 Is. Geoffrey. 



Is. Geoffrey had characterized the same species in Jacquemout's ' Voyage 

 dans rindc.' (16" and 17 livrais. Mamm. p. 02, tab. iv.) The following 

 may be given as the diagnosis : Pt. supra uigcllo-griseus, albo punctulatus et 

 strigillatus, subtus albus, postice rutilo lavatus, cauda sordide rutilo-cana, 

 apice uigra. Body Om. 28, tail with hair O34. From the valley of Seinde, 

 at an elevation above the sea of about 2500m. As a distinction from 

 Sciuropferus (more properly Pteromys) magnificus and elrycrns, he remarks, 

 that the former has indeed also the point of the tail black, and a black spot 

 on the chin, but that on the other hand it is of a bright chesnut above, 

 aureous beneath, and of different proportions. Pt. elegans is of the same 

 size, but the white stripes stand on a pure black ground ; the belly is of a 

 beautiful red, and the whole tail black. 



In the ' Institut.' (1843, p. 68,) is given the scarcely credible account of a 

 troop of Pteromys volacdla having been reported to have been seen in the 

 neighbourhood of Dignc (Lower Alps) : a specimen is said to have been 

 transmitted to the museum in Marseilles, which will certainly be necessary 

 for the verification of this statement. A detailed description of YWvr//////.v 

 Oral has been published by Tickell in the ' Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist.' 

 1840. (Isis, 1S13, p. 832.) 



