12 SCIURUS AUBINNir. 



Hab. Gold-coast , Dabocrom (Pel) , Ashantee (Aubinn) ; 

 source of the Ovenga-river (Du Chaillu). 



According to Pel this rare Squirrel frequents the same 

 localities as Sciurus stangeri. Du Chaillu has found it in 

 the mountainous country situated on the head waters of the 

 Ovenga-river , where it lives among the trees. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 



1 and 2. Adult male and female, Dabocrom , Gold-coast 

 (Pel) , killed in June , type-specimens. 



3 and 4. Skulls of Nos. 1 and 2. 



S citi r u s aubinnii. 



1873. Macroxus aubinnii Gray. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 XII, p. 65. 



1881. Heliosciurus aubinnii Trouessart. Catalogue des Ron- 

 geurs viv. et loss. p. 84. 



1881. Sciurus salae Jentink. Notes from the Leyden Mu- 

 seum, p. 63. 



Distinguished from all its congeners by the uniform grizzl- 

 ed aspect of all the hairs of upper and under parts and by 

 the slender black tail. 



Head and body above and below grizzled , each hair being 

 black with one or two brown rings. Among these rings 

 there are a few broader ones on the middle of the belly 

 and inside of legs, those parts thus showing a browner 

 hue. Outside of legs colored like back, towards the feet 

 the hairs grow shorter. Tail black above , down to the last 

 caudal vertebrum, the long tuft being nearly brownish 

 throughout, in consequence of the very broad brownish 

 rings to the hairs. Under parts of tail present a grizzled 

 aspect along the middle, broadly boardered with black. 



When in full dress a broad black band runs along the 

 middle of the back and joins the black tail. The feet are 

 blacker and the toes are wholly black. 



Whiskers long, black. Ears short, rounded, thickly 



I^otes trom tlae l^eyden IMutteum, Vol. IV. 



