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and hands black, some grizzling on the former. Tail (beyond the 

 basal dark portion) bright ' buff ', 



Skull. — As in melanopepla^ but slightly larger. 



Dimensions. — Head and body, 360 ; tail, 400 ; hindfoot, 75. 

 Skull : greatest length, 72 ; basilar length, 56 ; zygomatic breadth, 

 45 ; nasals, 21 ; diastema, 17 ; braincase breadth, 31 ; interorbital 

 breadth, 28 ; upper molar series, 14. 



Synonymy, — The names bicolor, and javensis refer undoubtedly to 

 typical hicolor. Desmarest no doubt had before him in 1817 an 

 abnormal individual with the normal paling of colour on the forehead 

 and vertex carried to extremes (such exan:ples are probably not rare ; 

 there is in the Museum Collection a Siamese specimen of melanopepla 

 which has an almost white head, although normally in that species 

 no paling of colour on the crown is to be found). To some such spe- 

 cimen he gave the name alhiceps. Two years later however, having 

 received normal specimens of hicolor^ he described and named lesche- 

 naultii fvom them. Sciurus humeral is of Coulon, as shown by both 

 description and. figure, is typical hicolor. 



Distribution. — Island of Java, 



16. Batufa palliata, Mill. 



1902. Ratvfa palliata, Miller, Proc. Ac. N. S. Phil, p. 147. 



Colour. — General pattern as in hicolor, but pale area on vertex, 

 grizzling on loins and thighs absent, yellow on tail obsolescent. 

 Colour of back near ' russet * when fresh, rapidly fading : lower sur- 

 face dirty yellowish, individual hairs brown with yellow tips. Face, 

 neck, arms and thighs dark brown, almost black. Cheeks sides of 

 neck and inside of forelegs pale yellow. Throat and inner side of 

 hindlegs like belly, usual dark spots under chin. Tail coloured like 

 back but the hairs tipped whiti?h (showing when tail is flattened a 

 pale edging along its whole length.) 



Skull. — As in hicolor, but anterior portion shorter; teeth rather 

 smaller. 



Dimensions. — Head and body 345 ; tail 425 ; hindfoot 78. Skull: 

 greatest length, 6(S ; basilar length, 53 ; zygomatic breadth, 42 

 nasals, 21 ; diastema, 16 ; braincase breadth, 33; interorbital breadth, 

 29 ; upper molar series, 12*8. 



