AFRICAN SQUIRRELS. 



NOTE I. 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE AFRICAN SQUIRRELS, 



WITH AN ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIMENS IN 



THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



BY 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



The African Squirrels have never been monographically 

 studied , although a large number of more or less impor- 

 tant descriptions of diÖ'erent species have been given , 

 which are to be found in different periodicals. The late 

 Temminck in his »Esquisses zoologiques sur la cote de 

 Guine. 1853" was the first to give a revision of the 

 Squirrels from West-Africa known at that time. The late 

 Gray in »the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 18G7" published a Synopsis of the African Squirrels and 

 Huet described in his » Recherches sur les Ecureuils Africains 

 1880" the Squirrels of the Paris Museum. These three 

 publications are the principal sources. There are further 

 several separate descriptions of species by Kerr , Et. Geoffroy 

 Saint-Hilaire , Desmarest, Smith, Fr. Cuvier, Rüppell, 

 Wagner , v. Heuglin , Ogilby , Lesson , Waterhouse , Fraser , 

 Peters , Le Conte , Du Chaillu , Gray , A. Milne Edwards , 

 etc. More or less critical enumerations or compilations on 

 this matter have been given by Fischer , Wagner , Schinz , 



Notes from the Leyden Museuxu , Vol. 1"V. 



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