-18 SCIURUS MUÏABILIS. 



The type specimens of Sciurus ornatus Gray are of a brigh- 

 ter red color. 

 Whiskers black. Eyes dark- brown. Ears with short, dense fur. 



m. m. 

 Length of head and body . . , 

 » » tail with tuft .... 

 » » hind foot ..... 



» » skull 



Width between the jugalia . . 



» * » orbits 



Length of upper molar series 

 Distance between incisor and first 



upper molar ....... 10.5 



There are five upper molars in each jaw aud four low- 

 er ones. 



The smooth incisors are yellow-brown or orange-red. 



N. i. Poculuti (Gray). 



Hab. Galla-land and Pangani-river (Paris Museum); Dana- 

 river , Muniuni (Fischer); Zanzibar (Bartle Frere , Hilde- 

 brandt); Mossambique , Mossimboa and Quitangonha (Peters); 

 Natal (Fosbrooke). 



No specimen in the Leyden Museum. 



Sciurus mut ah Hi s. 



1852. Sciurus mutabilis Peters. Monatsb. d. K. Pr. Akad. 

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

 sambique. Zoölogie. I Saugethiere. p. 131. pi. XXX 

 and pi. XXXII. fig. 2. 



1867. Macroxus stangeri, var. mutabilis['i) Gray. Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. XX. p. 326. 



1867. Funambulus mutabilis Fitzinger, Sitzb. d. K, Akad, 

 d. Wissensch, p. 34. 



1881. Heliosciurus stangeri Trouessart. Catalogue des Ron- 

 geurs viv. et foss. p. 82 fpartim). 



Upper parts of snout , cheeks , sides of throat and sides 



Notes from tUe Leyden IVEuseuna, Vol. IV. 



