SCIURUS PALLIATUS. 17 



1873 Macro.vus annulafus, var. Frerei Uray. Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. p. 265. 



1881. HeUosciurus palliatus Trouessart. Catalogue des 

 Rongeurs viv. et foss. p. 83 (partim) ; Helio' 

 sciurus multicolor Trouessart. 1. c. p. 83 (partira). 



Upper parts of head and body and of the outside of limbs 

 and the root of tail black , sprinkled with yellow and rusty 

 red, showing a banded aspect. The remaining parts of 

 head , body , limbs and the tail are also rusty red. 



Each hair of head , back , outside of body and of limbs 

 is black with a broad yellow, rusty brown or rusty red 

 subapical ring; a few hairs are black throughout. Among 

 the similarly colored hairs of the root of the tail there are 

 some with two lighter colored rings and others with 

 yellow or rusty red tips. The rusty red hairs of the belly 

 and limbs are uniform throughout: those of the under- 

 parts of the tail and also of its apex are rusty red, the 

 other hairs of that organ have a broad black ring, which 

 towards the apex occupies a lower place on the hairs. 



Macroxus annulatus, var. Frerei Gray is a young indi- 

 vidual ; the hindmost molars being not yet developed. The 

 hairs of the upper parts have a dusky white subapical ring. 

 Those of the middle part of the tail are annulated with 

 black and whitish yellow, the tips however are constantly 

 colored rusty red. A small fifth upper molar tooth is pre- 

 sent and it can never be looked upon as a variety of Sciurus 

 annulatus, where that small tooth is always wanting. 



The figure of Sciurus palliatus given by Prof. Peters is that 

 of a young specimen , the adult female is not to be found 

 in the collection of the Berlin Museum; the skull of the 

 latter however is present, although in a very bad state of 

 preservation as nearly all the molars as well as the incisors 

 are wanting. There is however an adult specimen from Zanzi- 

 bar in the Berlin collection agreeing in all parts with the 

 description given by Peters, except the hairs of the tail 

 which show four black rings. 



74'otes from the Leyden Museum , "Vol. I"V. 



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