MAMMALS FROM MOUNT COIFEK, LII5ER1A 633 



SCIURUS (HELIOSCIURUS) PUNCTATUS Tcmminck. 

 1888. Sciiirtis punctatus Jentink, Notes from the Lcyden Museiini, x, p. 36. 



Native name, Ten-deh. 



An adult male was obtained on March 13. Measurements: total 

 length 375 ; tail vertebnc 201 ; hind foot 45.7(40). 



SCIURUS (HELIOSCIURUS) RUFOBRACHIATUS 

 LIBERICUS subsp. nov. 



1888. Sciurus riifobrachiaius Jp:ntink, Notes from the Leyden Museum, x, 

 p. 36. Not of Waterhouse, 1842. 



Native name, Bo-gongeh. 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull) no. 83834, U. S. National 

 Museum. Collected at Mount Coffee, Liberia, Africa, March 22, 

 1897, by R. P. Currie. Original no. 16. 



Characters. — Slightly larger than specimens of Sciurus rtifobra- 

 chlatiis from the Benito River, Cameroon; pelage less suffused with 

 reddish, particularly on lower side of tail; skull decidedly larger, 

 with heavier teeth and relatively larger, more elongate audital bullag. 



Color. — Dorsal surface of head, body, and limbs black, irregularly 

 suffused with tawny and everywhere thickly and uniformly speckled 

 with yellowish white. The fur of the back is composed of long 

 coarse hairs and fine soft underfur. The coarse hairs are about 25 

 mm. in length and black throughout except for two yellow bands, each 

 1—2 mm. in width, one placed about 7 mm. from base, the other 

 about 10 mm. from tip. The more distal band is slightly the nar- 

 rower. It alone gives the speckled appearance to the fur, as the 

 lower band is concealed when the hairs lie in natural position. On 

 the sides the specks are buff (Ridgway, PI. v, No. 13), but on the 

 back, shoulders and head they are distinctly tinged with orange, pro- 

 ducing a faintly marked dorsal area. Underfur about 15 mm. long, 

 slaty black, ringed subterminally with orange buff. This buff ap- 

 pears irregularly at the surface, giving rise to a faint tawny suffusion. 

 Belly scantily haired, shading to gi"ay anteriorly, and merging pos- 

 teriorly with the ochraceous rufous of inner sides of hind legs. The 

 inner surface of the front legs is like that of the hind limbs, and on 

 both this color is sharply contrasted with the speckled black outer 

 surface. Feet black, finely speckled with ochraceous. Tail black, 

 finely speckled with buff on basal third, both above and below; the 

 terminal two-thirds with ten faintly defined gray cross bars and a nar- 

 rower gray margin above, and uniformly grizzled with gray below ; 

 pencil wholly black. 



