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paler above and below ; head coloured like the back, no red spot over 

 the eye or behind the ears ; tail natter and broader. 



Hab. India, Dargellan, Mr. Pearson. Mus. Ind. Comp. 



The bones showed no indication of the specimen being young : I 

 should call it provisionally, after my companion in my medical stu- 

 dies, who sent it to this country, S. Pearsonii. 



Sciuropterus nobilis. Bright chestnut-brown, with yellow tips to 

 some of the hairs, pale rufous beneath ; the top of the head, the 

 shoulders, and a narrow streak down the middle of the upper part of 

 the back pale fulvous ; parachute large. 



Hab. India, Dargellan, Mr. Pearson. Mus. Ind. Comp. 



Sciurus splendidus. Bright red bay ; hair uniform red bay to the 

 base ; head rather paler ; cheeks and chin rather paler still ; throat 

 from under the eyes, chest, belly, and inside of the limbs to the 

 wrists pure white ; whiskers and tuft of hairs on the temple black ; 

 ears somewhat naked; tail flat, two-rowed, bright red 4 hair one- 

 coloured to the base. 



Hab. ? Mus. Earl of Derby. 



Size of English squirrel, but brighter red. 



Sciurus rufogularis. Black; cheeks and side of the throat iron- 

 gray, grisled ; throat, side of the neck, shoulders, fore-legs, abdomen, 

 inside of the thighs and the hind feet deep red ; streak along each 

 side of the body and the outer side of the thighs white. 



Hab. China. 



Very like S. Rafflesii, but only half the size, and has no white on 

 the cheeks, and the shoulders and side of the neck are red. 



Sciurus rufonigra. Black ; throat, inner side of the legs and be- 

 neath bright red ; an indistinct streak along each side, and the outer 

 side of the thigh white, grisled. 



Hab. India. 



Sciurus rufogaster. Reddish, grisled; head, sides of the neck, 

 and outside of the limbs leaden gray, grisled ; tail and feet black ; 

 belly red. 



Hab. Malacca. 



Sciurus atrodorsalis. Gray ; middle of the back blackish, slightly 

 grisled; cheeks and whiskers yellowish ; ears, chest, belly and under- 

 side of limbs dull rufous ; tail blackish, hair with a broad black cen- 

 tral band. 



Hab. Bhotan. 



Sciurus castaneoventris , Gray. Very like .S. hippuris, but only half 

 the size, and the ears are gray. Var. rather paler ; chin grayish, be- 

 neath yellowish red. 



Hab. China, John Reeves, Esq. 



Sciurus caniceps. Pale gray, grisled ; back yellowish, beneath 

 paler gray ; tail long, gray, black varied, ringed, hair with three 

 broad black bands. 



Hab. Bhotan. 



Sciurus Belcheri. Black, minutely dotted with bright yellow ; 

 side of the head and outside of the limbs more orange, and feet dark 

 bay ; edge of the eyes and underside of the body bright orange ; lips 



