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

 very well developed. Incisors smooth , orange colored. 



N. i. Ngori (Du Chaillu). 



Jlab. Senegambia, Casamanza-river (Paris Museum); Li- 

 beria , St. Paul-river , Sofore-place and Fisherman-lake , 

 Buluma (Biittikof'er and Sala); Ashantee (British Museum); 

 Gold-coast , Dabocrom , Rio-Boutry (Pel), Elmina (Nagt- 

 glas , Pel), Accra, Muugo (Buchholz), Akim (Mohr), Akro- 

 pong (Dieterle), Victoria (Reichenow), Fantee (British and 

 Berlin Museum); Calabar (Laurein); Fernando-Po (Fraser, 

 Montemart); Gaboon (Aubry Lecomte); Rivers Nazareth , 

 Ogobai , Fernando- Vaz , Rembo and Ovenga (Du Chaillu); 

 Angola, Kuango (v. Mechow). 



It inhabits the forests. 



Specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



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

 Büttikofer and Sala, 19 April 1880. — 2,3 and 4. Very 

 young individuals (inspirits), Liberia, Fisherman-lake, Bu- 

 luma, January 1881, Büttikofer and Sala. — 5 and G, 

 Adult males, Gold-coast, Dabocrom, May 1842, Pel. — 

 7. Adult female, Dabocrom, May 1842, Pel. — 8. Adult 

 female, Dabocrom, February 1843, Pel. — 9, 10 and 11. 

 Adult female and adult males, Dabocrom , 1842, Pel. — 12 

 and 13. Adult male and female , Gold-coast, Elmina, 1861 

 and 1865, IS'agtglas. — 14. Young individual. Gold- 

 coast, 1865. — 15. Very young specimen, Liberia, died 

 in the Zoological garden at Rotterdam, 1875. — 16. Adult 

 female, Elmina, July 1861, Nagtglas. — 17. Adult fe- 

 male, Gaboon. — 18. Adult female, Ogobai, Schliiter. 



19. Skull of n». 8. — 20. Skull of n". 9. — 21. Skull 

 of n\ 15. — 22. Skull of n«. 18. 



No*. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are the type-specimens 

 of Sciurus leucostigma Temrainck. N*^. 18 received s. n. 

 Sciurus rubripes Du Chaillu. 



S c ill r u s congicus. 

 1820. Sciurus congicus Kuhl. Beitriige zur Zoölogie, p. 66. 



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