SCIURUS DAVIDIANUS. i'^l 



The number of upper premolars is unknown. 



Hab. Sé tchouau , China. 



No specimens in the Leyden Museum. 



This species perhaps is the same as the former. 



Sciurus davidianus. 



1867. Sciurus davidianus A. Milne Edwards. Revue et Masc. 



de Zoölogie, p. 19G. 

 1868 — 1874. Sciurus (Tamias) davidianus A. Milne Edwards. 



Recherches etc. p. 160. pis. 16 and 18, fig. 2. 



Anderson seems to believe that this species belongs to 

 the Tamias-group , for he does not mention it in his summing 

 up of the Indian Squirrels. I regard its with Milne Ed- 

 wards as a form between the true Sciurus and the true 

 Tamias. It possess cheek-pouches , but they are very small 

 compared with the same parts in Tamms-species , its skull, 

 although more elongated than generally is to be found in 

 AScmr-Ms-species , differs in no other way from the latter 

 and finally its body is not ornated with longitudinal bands 

 or stripes as is always the case in Tamz'as-species. 



There are two upper premolars , the first of them is a 

 very large one. 



In comparing Milne Edwards' figure of this species with 

 his description , it appears that they do not correspond 

 together: the fact* is that the figure is to dark colored. 



Hab. China, neighborhood of Pekin. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 



1. Adult specimen, China, neighborhood of Pekin, Da- 

 vid, Paris-Museum, 1868. One of the types of the species. 



2. Skull of W\ 1. 



Notes from tbe Leyden IVIuseuixi, Vol. "V. 



