.)i SCIURUS CONGICUS. 



183G. Spermosn'urus rov<jinis Lesson. Histoire naturelle 



des Mammif. f. V. p. 401. 

 1843. Sciurus (Xeros?) covgicus Wagner. Schreber's Sau- 



gethiere. Supplem. Bd. III. p. 217. Note. 



1852. Sciurus Jiavivittis Peters. Monat;5b. d. K. Pr. Akad. 



d. Wissenschaften. Berlin, p. 274; Reise nacli 

 Mossambique , Zoölogie, Siiugethiere. p. 128. 

 pi. XXIX and^pl. XXXII. fig. 4. 



1853. Xerus Jiavivittis ïemminck. Esquisses Zool. sur 



la Cóte de Guiné. 1^ partie. p. 124. Note. 

 1867. Maeroxus congicus Gray. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. 



Hist. XX. p. 330. 

 1867. Funamhulus congicus Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. Akad. 



d. Wissensch. I. p. 33 ; Funamhulus jiavivittis 



Fitzinger. 1. c. p. 34. 



1880. Sciurus ochraceus Huet. Nouv. Arch, du Museum. 



p. 154. pi. 7. fig. 2. 



1881. Heliosciurus ochraceus Trouessart. Catalogue des 



Rongeurs viv. et foss. p. 84; Spermosciurus 

 Jiavivittis Trouessart. 1. c. p. 84; Spermosciurus 

 congicus Trouessart. 1. c. p. 84 (partiiu). 



Upper parts olivaceous or rusty ochraceous, sides less dark , 

 under parts ycillowish white , bi-colored. The more ochraceous 

 tinge, the smaller size and the not wholly whitish colored 

 under parts distinguish this species at once from the former. 



The hairs are short and very soft to the touch. There 

 are very striking differences in the mode of coloration of the 

 different specimens, similarly to what was noticed for the 

 foregoing species. The specimens resembling the type of 

 Kuhl agree as to the color of the upper parts with the same 

 parts in Sciurus pyrropus , the tail , the sides of the body 

 and outside of legs however are never red , but also oliva- 

 ceous although not so dark as the upper parts. A white 

 band , bordered by a band somewhat darker colored than 

 the back, runs from shoulder to thigh. The hairs of the 

 under parts and of the inside of the legs bear white tips. 

 A white circle surrounds the eyes. Whiskers black. 



I^fotes Iroin the Leyden IMuseiim, "Vol. W. 



