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Whiskers black. The well developed ears with short 

 greenish hrown hairs. The black eyes surrounded by a 

 cinereous green circle. m. m. 



Length of head and body 190 



» » tail withHuft 232 



Lensjth of tail without tuft 182 



. » i> hind foot 33 



» » skull 38 



Width between the jugalia 23 



» » » orbits 10.5 



Length upper molar series 6 



Distance between incisor and first upper molar. . 8.25 



There are five molars in each upper jaw : the fifth very 

 well developed. Incisors ungrooved , pale orange. 



Hab. Liberia, St. Paul-river, Sofore-place (Büttikofer 

 and Sala) ; Ashantee (British Museum) ; Gold-coast , Rio 

 Boutry (Pel) , Elmina (Nagtglas) ; Gaboon (Laglaize) ; Per- 

 nando-po (Thompson). 



It frequents wooded countries (Pel). 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



1. Adult male, Liberia, St. Paul-river, Sofore-place , 3 

 May 1880, Büttikofer and Sala. — 2. Adult female, So- 

 fore'-place, 28 May 1880, Büttikofer and Sala. — 3. Half 

 grown male, Sofore-place, 29 May 1880, Büttikofer and 

 Sala. — 4. Adult male, Gold-coast, Rio-Boutry, 1842, 

 Pel. — 5 and 6. Adult male and female. Gold-coast, 1842, 

 Pel. — 7. Half grown individual. Gold-coast, 1842, Pel. 

 — 8. Young male, Gold-coast, 1842, Pel. — 9. Adult 

 male, Gold-coast, Elmina, July 1861, Nagtglas. — 10. 

 Half grown male, Elmina, November 1862, Nagtglas. — 

 11 and 12. Adult males, Gaboon, Frank, 1854 and 1859. 



13. Skull of nO. 2. — 14. Skull of n". 6. 



Nos 4 , 5,6,7 and 8 are the type-specimens of Sciur 

 rus musculinus Temminck. 



Sciur us minutus. 



1861. Sciurus minutus Du Chaillu. Proc. of the Boston 

 Soc. of Nat. Hist. VII. p. 366. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Miuseum , Vol. IV. 



