i'iÖ RHINOSCIURUS LATICAUDATUS. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak. 



No specimen in the Ley den Museum. 



RHINOSCIURUS. 



Rhinosciurus laticaudafus. 



1839 — 44. Sciurus laticaudatus Muller and Schlegel. Ver- 

 handelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis etc. 

 Zoölogie, p. 100. PI. 15, figs 1—3. 



1843. Rhinosciurus Tupaioides Gray. List of the specimens 

 etc. p. 195. 



1867. Rhinosciurus tupaoides Gray. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. p. 286. 



1878. Sciurus (Rhinosciurus) tupaoides Anderson. Yunnan 

 Expedition, p. 274. 



1881. Rhinosciurus laticaudatus Trouessart. Catalogue des 

 Rongeurs vivants et fossiles. p. 18. 



Although Anderson has examined the types of Sciurus 

 laticaudatus and Rhinosciurus tupaioides (1. c. p. 276) and 

 found that they belong to only one species , he gives to 

 the species the specific title tupaoides (lege tupaioides) Gray 

 and not the elder title laticaudatus Muller and Schlegel j 

 I will not specify such an unjust and unscientific act , but 

 pass over it in silence. Transiently it must be observed that 

 Prof. Schlegel never has travelled in the Indian Archipel- 

 ago , as Anderson seems to believe (see also p. 262) , for 

 instance Anderson writes, 1. c. p. 276: » Muller and Schle- 

 gel met with it (viz: with Sciurus laticaudatus) in that island 

 (viz : in Borneo) , along the banks of the rivers (lege : river) 

 Barito or Doeson and in the mountain jungle." Remark- 

 ably enough S. Muller and Schlegel stated that this species 

 has not been found along the banks of the river Baritto 

 or Doeson and that its distribution consequently seems 

 to be very restrict! 



I add to the observations made by Muller and Schlegel , 

 Notes froxn tlae Leyden Miuseuin , Vol. V. 



