MAMMALIA. 415 



S. Si.\DF.xr, Aiul. 



Closely allied and of the same size as /S. Gordon!, but having its feet and 

 head orange-red, and a bright brick-red tail tip. 

 Thigyaiu in Upper Eurma. 



S. CANicKi's, Gray. 



S. chri/soHotun, Blyth. 

 S. coHcolor, Blyth. 

 Above grey or fulvous. Tail grey, grizzled with an abrupt black tip. Inner 

 side of limbs greyish, sonK^tinies tinged with yellow. Sometimes the nape, shoulilers, 

 and l)ack are bright ferruginous. Wliiskers long and black. Ears with whitish pencils. 

 Tavoy and Tenasserim. 



S Berdmokei, Blyth. 

 S. Mouhoiii, Gray. 



Odour brownish, rufous on the back. Head, sides, and outside of the limbs 

 punetulated with yellow. An oljscure black vertebral line behind the shoulders, 

 half down the trunk. A yellow line from the shoulder to the groin bordered above 

 with dusky and below with a liroad black band, and below it, a pale yellow linear area. 

 Under parts white, washed here and there. Tail bushy, the hairs anuulated with four 

 alternate orange and black bands. 



Head and body 7'75 inches; tail 5. 



Mr. Blanford seems not quite satisfied as to the union of these species. 



" Several skins were procured by Jlr. Davison, and a specimen in spirit was 

 collected by Jlr. Limborg, of a species of striped squirrel ditfeiing somewhat from 

 the Museum specimens of S. Berdmorei, but agreeing very well with Gray's description 

 of S. Mouholi from Candjoja. The Museum sp(>cimens of S. Berdmorei, said by Blyth 

 to have been collected by himself in ifartaban, have three broad black stripes along 

 the back, whereas in the specimens before me there are no black stripes and no 

 distinct darker band in the middle of the back, although there is a slight indication 

 of darkening in one specimen. In the original desci'lption of <S'. Bcrdi/iort'i, it was 

 said to have an obscure pale central dorsal streak, flanked by a blackish band, but in 

 a subsequent description of an example sent from Maulmain the three black bands of 

 the back were especially noticed. Subsequently S. Muii/io/i was described by Gray 

 and then identified by the describer with i>. Berdmorei, an identification adopted by 

 Blyth. It is possible that the two forms pass into each other, but they look very 

 different, and for the present I prefer retaining Gray's name for the variety before 

 me, of which the following is a description. 



"The upper surface is yellowish-brown, puncticulated, the hairs being black with 

 two buff rings. The tine woolly under-fur is dark slate-colouied at the base with 

 buff tips. On each side of the back there are two longitudinal pale lines extending 

 from the shoulder to the thigh, the upper narrow and well defined, the lower broader 

 and less marked. Between the two and above the upper pale line, the fur is darker 

 in some specimens, but apparently this is not constant. The sides below the lower 

 pale lateral bands are greyish-brown puncticulated. The lower parts throughout are 

 white, sometimes tinged with buff. The tail luiirs are light brown at the basc,_ then 

 black, then brown again, then black to near the tips, which are whitish. Whiskers 

 black. The ears are rounded with very short hairs outside. 



"The bare planla on the hind feet extends further towards the heel than in the 

 more typically arboreal sriuirrels, <S'. canicepx, <S. atrodormlis, and <S. Phayrci, in which 

 the bare portion ends aljout i to ^ of an inch from the jiroximal extremity of the 

 tarsus, whereas in S. Ilouholi it extends to the joint. The claws too in /S. Ihuhoti 

 are rather less curved, and the pads on the feet ai)|)ear more raised." 



J.ength of adult female — head and body 7-3; tail 5-8; tot;il 13-1 inches. 



Jlartaban and Tenasserim (where rare). 



S. MacClellaxdii, ][orsfield. 

 S. remhertnnii, Blyth. 

 S. Barbei, Blyth. 



