PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. II, pp. 79-81. July 25, 1900. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SQUIRRELS FROM 

 TRONG, LOWER SIAM. 



By Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



Two of the squirrels collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in Trong, 

 Lower Siam, and presented to the United States National 

 Museum, are at least subspecifically distinct from the forms of 

 the same species occurring at Singapore. Neither appears to 

 have hitherto received a name. This paper is published here 

 by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



SCIURUS NOTATUS MINIATUS subsp. nov. 



Type. — Adult female (skin and skull) no. 84415 United States Na- 

 tional Museum, Trong, Lower Siam, February 25, 1897. ^ 



Characters. — Similar to the form of Sciurtis notatus inhabiting 

 Singapore Island, but red of underparts much darker, and terminal 

 pencil and often the entire distal half or third of tail uniform red be- 

 neath. 



Color. — Entire dorsal surface of head and body, a fine grizzle of 

 black and yellowish wood brown, the individual hairs black with two 

 or often three brown rings. The wood brown is (at the surface) 

 everywhere in excess of the black. Cheeks, outer surface of legs, and 

 upper surface of feet dull cinnamon, faintly grizzled. Underparts 

 and inner side of legs rich clear rufous, the extreme base of hairs 

 slaty. On sides the color of belly is separated from that of back by 

 two longitudinal stripes extending from just behind axilla to flanks; 



1 "Shot in heavy forest on the hills at about 1,000 feet ; apparently not com- 

 mon in heavy forest." Collectors' note. 



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