16 SCIURUS PALLIATUS. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 



1. Adult female, Liberia, St. Paul-river, Soforé-place , 

 20 April 1880 (Büttikofer and Sala). — 2, Adult male, 

 Soforé-place, 19 May 1880 (Büttikofer and Sala). — 3. 

 Adult male, Soforé-place, 4 September 1880 (Büttikofer 

 and Sala). — 4. Adult female, Soforé-place, 14 Septem- 

 ber 1880 (Büttikofer and Sala). — 5. Adult male, St- Paul- 

 river, Bavia, 18 February 1880 (Büttikofer and Sala). — 

 6. Adult male, Fisherman-lake , Bendo, 23 November 1880 

 (Büttikofer and Sala), - 7. Young male, Bendo, 24 No- 

 vember 1880 (Büttikofer and Sala). — 8. Adult, Liberia, 

 died in the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam, 1878. — 

 9 and 10. Adult males, Gold-coast, Rio Boutry (Pel). — 

 11. Adult female, Rio Boutry (Pel). — 12. Adult male, 

 Gold-coast, Saccondé, 25 April 1842 (Pel). — 13. Young 

 female, Rio Boutry (Pel). — 14. Adult male, Gold-coast, 

 1861 (Nagtglas). — 15. Adult, neighborhood of Cameroon- 

 mountains, Frank, 1880. — 16 and 17. Adult male and 

 female, Fernando-po. — 18. Half grown male, Fernan- 

 do-po. 



19. Skull of N« 8. — 20. Skull of No 9. — 21. Skull 

 of N« 11. — 22. Skull of NO 12. — 23, Skull of No 15. — 

 24. Skull of NO 17. 



Nos 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are the type-specimens of 

 Sciurus maculatus Temminck. 



S ciu r u s palliatus. 

 1852. Sciurus palliatus Peters. Monatsb. d. R. Pr. Akad. 



d. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 273; Reise nach Mos- 



sambique. Zoölogie. I. Saugethiere. p. 134. 



pi. XXXI, fig. 1 and pi. XXXII, fig. 3. 

 1864. Sciiirus ornatus Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 



p. 13. pi. L 

 1867. Macro.vus palliatus Gray. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. XX. p. 330. 

 1867. Funamhulus palliatus Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. Akad. 



d. Wissensch. p. 34. 



Wotes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. IV. 



