SCIURUS PLANÏANI. 133 



Sciurus plantani. 



1801. Sciurus plantani Ljung. Kon. Vetensk, Ac. N. Handl. 



p. 99. pi. 1. 

 1878. Sciurus vittatus Anderson. Yunnan Expeditiou. p. 



266; Sciurus plantani Anderson. 1. c. p. 267. 



Although it seems that specimens described as Sciurus 

 vittatus prevail on the Indian Continent , in Sumatra , Banka 

 and Borneo, meanwhile the Sciurus plantani or nigro-vit- 

 tatus is more frequent in Java, they must be regarded as 

 mere varieties of the same species. In the first place I 

 observe that among the Javan-specimens there are two prin- 

 cipal modifications of color , viz : specimens with reddish 

 underparts and a ditto circle round the eyes and others 

 where the named parts are slaty black or grey colored; 

 that others from the same locality are equally referable 

 to both and that the same phenomenon is observed among 

 the specimens from Sumatra , Borneo and the Indian Con- 

 tinent. So we possess two specimens from Canton, China, 

 one of which has the underparts of a beautiful red , mean- 

 while the other has the same parts slaty black; moreorer 

 we have a specimen from Nepal with a slaty colored 

 belly which cannot be distinguished from the Javan-speci- 

 mens which are colored on the same manner. The pale 

 and black side-bands also present many phases of intensity. 



Skeleton with 12 costales, 7 lumbares, 3 sacrales and 

 24 caudales. 



There are two upper premolars, the first of which is 

 well-developed. 



Hab. China; Nepal and perhaps the whole Indian Con-, 

 tinent eastward Nepal; the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Banka, Borneo and Java. Two of our specimens have 

 been collected in Celebes, according to the late Teysmann's 

 labels. 



Notes iroxn the Leyden ]VIuseuixi, "Vol. "V". 



