li SCIURUS RUFO-BRACHIATUS. 



Sciurus rufo-hrachiatus. 



1842. Sciurus rufo-hraehiatus Waterhouse. Proc. Zool. 



Soc. London, p. 128; Sciurus rufo-brachium 



Waterhouse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. X. p. 202. 



1849. Sciurus rufobrachiatus Fraser. Zoologia typica. 



pi. 24. 

 1853. Sciurus maculatus Temminck. Esquisses Zool. sur 

 la cóte de Guiné. 1^ partie. p. 130; Sciurus 

 rubrobrachiatus Temminck. 1. c. p 136. 

 1867. Sciurus aubryi Alph. Milne Edwards. Rev. et 



Mag. de Zoölogie, p. 228. 

 1867. Macro.vus rufobrachiatus Gray. Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. XX. p. 328 (partim); Macroxus 

 isabeUinus Gray. 1. e. p. 329. 

 1867. Funambulus rufobrachium Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. 



Akad. d. Wissensch. p. 33. 

 188Ü. Sciurus rufobrachiatus Huet. Nouv. Arch, du Mu- 

 seum, p 144 (partim); Sciurus aubryi Huet. 

 1. c. p. 150. 

 1881. Heliosciurus gambianus Trouessart. Catalogue des 

 Rongeurs viv. et foss. p. 82 (partim) ; Helio- 

 sciurus annulatus Trouessart. 1. c. p. 83 (partim) ; 

 Heliosciurus aubryi Trouessart. 1. c. p. 84. 

 This species is characterized by having the upper parts 

 grizzled , the under parts red and the upper incisors grooved. 

 Hairs of the upper surface of the head, neck, sides of 

 the collar, upper parts and sides of body and outside of 

 limbs glossy black with two olivaceous yellow rings ; the 

 subapical one is the smallest. Inside of legs wholly red. 

 Chin , throat , breast and belly yellow or reddish , each hair 

 being black at its base. Hairs of the very bushy tail 

 repeatedly ringed with black and white, the tips being 

 always white , except towards the apex of the tail , where 

 the hairs are conspicuously tipped with black. The tail is 

 not always clearly banded. Young specimens are colored 

 like the adult ones. 



Notes from the Xjeyden JVCuseum, Vol. IV. 



