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NOTE XVI. 

 Oi\ A NEW SaUIRREL, SCIURÜS SALAE. 



BY 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



January 1881. 



This beautiful squirrel is one of the recent discoveries 

 made in Liberia by our diligent travellers, Biittikofer and 

 Sala. It is at once distinguished from the other hitherto 

 described species found in Africa by a broad black band, 

 running from the neck to the tail along the middle of the 

 back and by its tail being black on the upper parts and 

 not ringed as in nearly all the other African squirrels. 



As the fur is soft to the touch it finds its place among 

 the true Sciurl. In external appearance it agrees with the spe- 

 cies of a group of which I would regard Sc. rufohrachiatus 

 as the type , but it differs by presenting |. molars and not | . 

 Moreover in Sc. rufohrachiatus and maculatus the upper 

 incisors are longitudinally grooved and this is not the case 

 in our new species. 



Having thus pointed out the general differences be- 

 tween Sc. salae and the other known African Squirrels and 

 having fixed the place it is to occupy amongst them I will 

 now give a brief description. 



Agrees in size with Sciurus rufohrachiatus and maculatus. ^QQ,di 

 and body above and below grizzled, each hair being black 

 with one or two yellowish brown rings. Among these rings 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. III. 



