SCIURUS EBII. 14 



Fur short. Back blackish olivaceous , head and limbs red , 

 tail brownish-black or black. It resembles the foregoing 

 species in external appearance , but there are such striking 

 differences in the distribution of the colors , shortness of the 

 fur and form of the skull, that it cannot be confounded 

 either with Sciurus stangeri or with any other Squirrel. 



Hairs of back , sides and upper parts of fore-limbs mouse- 

 colored at the base , then white , black , yellowish red and 

 a hardly visible blackish tip. Hairs of head and upper 

 parts of hind legs conspicuously red tipped. Lower parts of 

 limbs, feet, inside of limbs, ears and sides of head shining 

 red. Belly, breast and throat scarcely covered with yello- 

 wish red hairs. The bushy tail is at its root colored like 

 the back , further on each hair is black with three white 

 rings and a white tip , towards the apex the rings dimi- 

 nish in number and the white rings grow red and at the 

 apex the hairs are red with long black or blackish-brown 

 tips. Whiskers black. 



The type of Sciurus loilsoni Du Chaillu and two other 

 individuals in the British Museum from Ashantee agree 

 wholly with the typical specimens of Temminck's Sciurus 

 ebii in our collection. 



m. m. 



Length of head and body 290 



» » tail without tuft 280 



» » » with tuft , 360 



» » hind foot . . . . • 65.5 



» » skull 69 



Width of skull between the jugalia 36 



» » » » » orbits 19 



Length of upper molar series 10 



Distance between incisor and first upper molar. . 18 



There are four molars in each jaw. Cutting-teeth not 

 grooved, orange. The form of the skull is smaller and 

 more elongate than in Sciurus stangeri, nasalia longer. 

 Further differences will been found in comparing the mea- 

 sures above given with those of Sciurus stangeri. 



Notes iroxa. the Leyden Museum, Vol. IV. 



