SCIURUS MUTABILIS. 19 



of the foremost part of the body and outside of fore legs 

 the fore feet included, black speckled with brownish yellow; 

 upper parts of head, collar, and middle part of the back 

 glossy brown black. The whole hindmost part of the body, 

 the hind legs included , is yellowish rusty brown. Fore- 

 most part of breast and inside of fore limbs yellowish white , 

 lower parts of chin and throat rusty colored like the belly. 

 Feet black , tipped with white. Tail black indistinctly banded 

 with yellowish white, towards the apex rusty red. 



Each hair of the foremost part of head and of the foremost 

 parts of the sides of the body is black with a yellowish white or 

 brownish yellow subterminal ring, sometimes there is another 

 similar ring more downwards at the base of the hair. The 

 woolly hairs are also black with a broad yellowish brown 

 subterminal ring. The hairs of the upper parts of head 

 and collar are black-brown throughout, a few however 

 have a small bright-brown subterminal ring; the hairs of 

 the middle part of the back are brown-black throughout; 

 those of the hind parts of the body are rusty brown with 

 one or two yellowish rings , dark-brown at the base , but 

 among them there are shorter ones ringed with black and 

 white or black throughout. Each hair of the tail is rin- 

 ged with black and white , the tip broadly pointed with 

 black. Towards the apex of the tail there are to be found 

 some rusty colored hairs : the apex however is wholly rusty 

 red, the base of the hairs being dark-brown. 



Whiskers black. Eyes dark-brown. Ears with short 

 hairs. 



m. m. 



Length of head and body 200 



» » tail with tuft 300 



» » hind foot 55 



» » skull 50 



Width between the jugalia 28.5 



» » » orbits 16 



Length of upper molar series 10 



Distance between incisor and first upper molar . 11 



Notes from tlie Leyden iVIuseum, 'Vol. I"V. 



