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NOTE VITI. 

 A NEW SaUIRREL FROM THE STANLEY-FALLS 



" BY 



Dr, P. A, JENTINK. 



May 1906. 



This beautiful greenish tinged Squirrel has been procu- 

 red by Mr. G. J. A. Pool at the Stanley-falls, Congostate, 

 in August 1905; Professor Dr. A. A. W. Hubrecht (Utrecht) 

 had the kindness as to present it to our National Mu- 

 seum. It apparently is an animal belonging to a hitherto 

 undescribed species; I describe it here under the specific 

 title of the collector: 



Sciurus Poolii, n. sp. 



It is a wood-squirrel, known by the indigenes under 

 the name Pania ya mti (Kiswahili-dialect), rather frequent, 

 eaten by the Negros (observations made by Mr. Pool). 



It belongs to the striped Squirrels, like lemniscatus, con- 

 gicus, Böhmi a. s. o. ; it is of the size of lemniscatus. Tail 

 incomplete. It is an adult femaler with four inguinal teats. 

 From between the shoulders a broad band runs along the 

 back to the tail; the sides of this band are of a deep 

 black till half-way the back ; from the middle of this band 

 between the shoulders these hairs are greenish yellow tip- 

 ped in broadening quantities towards the haunches, then 

 diminishing to the base of the tail. Sides of body of a 

 greenish yellow hue, the very soft mouse-colored hairs being 

 broadly tipped with greenish yellow. Parallel to the broad 

 band along the back there is on each side a good pro- 

 nounced dark black band from the shoulder to the knee 

 separating a less broad band from the rest of the above 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseuin, Vol. XX^VIU. 



