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and other gnawing animals gnaw stones , shells and other 

 hard substances for the purpose of shortening the incisors. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



1. Adult male, Sofore-place , St. Paul-river , Liberia (Büt- 

 tikofer and Sala) , killed 3 May 1880. — 2. Adult female, 

 Bavia , St. Paul-river (Biittikofer and Sala) , killed 28 Fe- 

 bruary 1880. — 3 and 4. Adult males, Dabocrom , Gold- 

 coast (Pel), killed May 1849. — 5. Adult female, Dabo- 

 crom, Pel, 1849. — 6. Adult male, Gaboon, Frank, 1865. 

 — 7. Adult male, Ogobai, W. Schliiter. — 8. Young male, 

 Ogobai, W. Schliiter. — 9. Adult male, West Africa, Frank, 

 1880. — 10 and 11. Adulte male and female , Fernando-po. 



12. Skull of n°. 6. — 13. Skull of n°. 7. — 14. Skull 

 of n°. 8. — 15. Skull of n°. 9. — 16. Skull ofn". 11.— 

 17. Skull, Gold-coast, Pel. — 18. Skull, Ashantee, Frank, 1880. 



No8- 3 , 4 and 5 are the type-specimens of Sciurus cani- 

 ceps Temmiuck. — N". 6 received s. n. Sciurus eborivorus 

 Du Chaillu. — N^s- 7 and 8 received s. n. Sciurus nordhoji 

 Du Chaillu. — N°. 11 agrees in coloration wholly with 

 Sciurus stangeri Waterhouse. 



Sciurus ebii. 



1853. Sciurus ebii Temminck. Esquisses Zool. sur la cote 

 de Guine , 1^ partie , p. 129. 



1860. Sciurus wilsoni Du Chaillu. Proc. Boston Soc. of 



Nat. Hist., Vol. VII, p. 364. 



1861. Sciurus wilsonii Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



p. 276. . 

 1867. Maeroxus wilsonii Gray. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist. XX, p. 328; Maeroxus pyrrhopusxox. ery- 

 throps Gray , 1. c. p. 330 (partim.) 



1880. Sciurus stangeri Huet. Nou v. Arch, du Museum , 



p. 142 (partim); Sciurus ebii Huet, 1 c, p. 148. 



1881. Heliosciurus s^aïv^m Trouessart. Catalogue des Ron- 



geurs viv. et foss. p. 82 (partim) ; Heliosciurus 

 erythrogenys Trouessart, 1. c. p. 83 (partim). 



jN'otes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. JTV. 



