Vol. XVI, pp. 147148 November 12, 1903 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW SQUIRREL FROM LOWER SIAM. 

 BY GERRIT S. MILLER, Jr. 



[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



Five small lineated squirrels collected by Dr. W. L. Ab- 

 bott in Trong, Lower Siam, differ markedly from the Burman 

 Sciurus barbei. So far as can be judged from descriptions they 

 are identical with the Malaccan Sciurus macclellandi leucotis of 

 Bonhote*, though without actual comparison of specimens this 

 question must remain open. They are, however, very doubtfully 

 the same as the Tamias leucotis of Temminckf; and the name 

 adopted by Mr. Bonhote is certainly invalidated by Gapper's 

 earlier use of Sciurus leucotis for an American squirrel^. The 

 animal occuring in Trong may be known as: 



Sciurus novemlineatus, sp. nov. 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull), No. 84,403, United States National 

 Museum. Collected at 1500 ft. elevation in heavy forest among the hills 

 of Trong, Lower Siam, February 19, 1897, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Characters. — Externally similar to Sciurus barbei Blyth, but ear smaller 

 and with the hairs of the white tuft scarcely, if at all, blackish at base. 



*Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., V, p. 53, January, 1900. 

 fEsquisses Zoologiques sur la Cote de Guine, p. 252, 1853. "Peninsula 

 of Malacca." 



JZool. Journ., V, p. 206, 1830. Ontario. 



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