THE " COMMON STRIPED PALM SQUIRREL. 



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skull measurements of these as well as of the corresponding forms of 

 palmarum and of the specimen from Guzerath referred to at the com- 

 mencement of this paper. I have taken the measurements of the type 

 tristriatus from its skull but I find they agree almost exactly with those 

 given (in inches and lines) by Waterhouse in his paper in P. Z. S;, 

 1889, p. 118. 



The way in which the increased skull measurements of Travancore 

 tristriatus, over the type, are repeated in palmarum is significant, and I 

 think justifies the separation of the Travancore form as a geographical 

 race or sub-species. 



F. palmarum, L. comorinus sub. sp. n. 



Differs from typhnis by its much soberer grey colouration and by its 

 larger skull measurements as given above. 



Habitat. — Travancore. 



Type. $ B. M. 95. 10. 9. 19. Obtained by Mr. H. Ferguson at 

 Trevandrum, 23rd January 1895. Many specimens. 



FuN^MBULUS PENNANTII. Sp. 11. 



Palm squirrel. Pennant, Hist. Quad. Ed. Ill, p. 149, 1793. 



Habitat. — Mandvi Taluka of Surat District. 



Type : $ B. M. 98. 4 2. 25. original number 45, obtained by myself, 

 27th February 1898. Length as in palmarum. 



The body colouring is very much as in palmarum, comorimis but 

 along the outside edg? of the 'saddle mark,' on each side there is a 

 supplementary pale stripe. This stripe being bounded on the outer 



