iiO SCIURUS ALBICEPS. 



matra, Deli, Tandjong-Morawa , B. Hageu , 1882. — 22 

 Skull of au adult specimen, Sumatra, J. F. Snellemau, 1878. 



Sciurus albiceps. 



1817. Sciurus albiceps Desmarest. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 



X. p. 105. 

 1820. Sciurus leschenaultii Desmarest. Mammalogie. p. 335. 

 1822, Sciurus ajinis Kaffles. Transae. Linu. Soc. London. 



Xm. p. 259. 

 1824. Sciu7'us hypoleucos Horsfield. Zoological Researches 



iu Java. p. 

 1832. Sciurus auriventer Is. G. St. Hilaire. Magasin de 



Zoölogie, pi. Y. 

 1835. Sciui'us humeralis Coulon. Mém. de la Société des 



Sc. Nat. de Neufchat. Vol. I. p. 122. pi. VIII. 

 1838. Scivrus ephippium S. Muller. Tijdschi-ift voor Na- 

 tuurlijke Gescliiedenis en Physiologie. p. 147. 

 1878. Sciurus hicolor Anderson. Yuuuan Expedition, p. 



215 (partim). 



This species is characterized by having untufted ears , 

 by its yellowish brown to black brown back and tail , by 

 its white to orange or golden colored belly and by its toes 

 which are white to golden. It is distinguished from the 

 other large-sized Indian Squirrels by its hairs of the belly 

 being unicolor and not darker towards the base of the 

 hairs and by its never black toes. It often has been con- 

 founded with hicolor, which however has the hairs of the belly 

 bicolored , those of the tail always ending in white to orange 

 tips and the toes Idack. Although the specimens of a given 

 locality, Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, Java or Borneo , pre- 

 sent some peculiarities , which has given rise to describe 

 such local- varieties as distinct species, there are among 

 our large series of specimens from each of the named lo- 

 calities always some ones which deviate in color from the 

 typical local race and which form so to say links between 



Notes from the I_ieyd.en IMuseum, "Vol. V, 



