Descriptive List of the Rodents of South Africa. 185 



FUNISCIURUS PALLIATUS, THE EED-HEAUED SQUIRREL. 



Sciurus palliatus, PETERS, M. B. Akad. Berlin, p. 273 (1852) ; ID., 

 Reise Mozamb. Saugeth., p. 134, pi. xxxi., fig. 1, pi. xxxii., fig. 3 

 (1852) ; JENTINK, Notes Leyd. Mus., iv., p. 16 (1882). 



Sciurus ornatus, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 13, pi. i. (1864) [Natal] . 



Description. General colour above and on the outsides of the limbs 

 speckled yellow and black, the hairs black at the base and subter- 

 minally with intermediate reddish -yellow bands and paler yellow 

 tips ; head speckled rufous and black ; below throughout, including 

 the cheeks, chin, inside and lower halves of the limbs bright rufous, 

 the hairs being the same colour throughout ; tail dark rufous with 

 long hairs which are very pale at the base with two black rings 

 following, the terminal half alone being dark rufous ; whiskers black ; 

 eyes dark brown ; ears in the only specimen examined nearly bare 

 of hairs, though said in the original description to be thickly covered. 



Incisors smooth and dark orange ; premolars 2/1, the anterior 

 upper one small and deciduous. 



Dimensions (from a skin). Head and body 8'25 ; tail without 

 terminal hairs 4-50, with 6-50; hind foot 1-80; from ear to nose 

 1-75; skull length (about) 1-90, breadth 1-20; upper cheek teeth '40. 



Distribution. East and South Africa from Gallaland through 

 German East Africa, Nyassaland and Mozambique to Zululand 

 and perhaps Natal ; the South African Museum possesses a skin 

 from the Umgoye Forest in Zululand. 



The type described by Peters from Mozambique is now in the 

 Berlin Museum. 



FUNISCIURUS CONGICUS, THE WESTERN STRIPED SQUIRREL. 



Sciurus congicus, KUHL, Beitr. Zool., p. 66(1820) ; JENTINK, Notes 

 Leyd. Mus., iv., p. 33 (1882) (in part) ; THOMAS, Proc. Zool. Sqc., 

 p. 265 (1882) [Cunene River] . 



Description. General colour above yellowish brown, brighter on 

 the shoulders, below very pale yellow ; hairs of the back black at the 

 base and many of them with black tips ; along the sides from the 

 shoulder to the hind limbs runs a narrow pale yellow stripe, below 

 which is a similar dark one ; an incomplete white ring round the 

 eye ; ears moderate, whiskers black ; limbs pale, toes covered with 

 long hairs nearly concealing the claws, tail a little shorter than the 

 head and body, bushy, composed of long hairs which are bright 

 yellow with a subterniinal pale yellow band. 



