XXI. A NOMINAL LIST OF THE SCIURIDAE OF 



THE ORIENTAL REGION WITH A LIST OF 



SPECIMENS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



By Herbert C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., 



and 



Cecil Boden Kloss, F.Z.S. 



We owe to the kindness of Dr. N. Annandale the opportunity of 

 examining the whole collection of Oriental Sciuridae in the possession 

 of the Zoological Survey of India, a collection which is of great interest 

 to Mammalogists as containing the material on which the work of 

 Blyth and Anderson was based. In the course of our work we have 

 reviewed the whole recent literature of the group which, owine laryelv 



ERRATA. 



P. 193, line 7 for " Telbongo Peak " read " Tellizo Peak." 



P. 193, line 9 for " Dunsiris " read " Dunsiri." 



P. 193, line 16 for " Dirjung ''read " Diyung." 



P. 197, line 14 for " Dinapur " read " Dimapur." 



P. 224, line 25 for " Harmuth Dikrang " read " Harmutti, Dikrang R., 



Dafla." 

 P. 239, line 20 for '* Naga Hills " read " Dafla Hills." 



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" Oriental Flying Squirrels of the Pteromys group " ^ and like him have 

 been compelled for the greater number of the forms to use a binomial 

 nomenclature, though there is not the slightest doubt that the rela- 

 tionships of by far the larger proportion are merely subspecific and that, 

 when a sufficient number of properly authenticated specimens are 

 available, we shall be able to sort them" out from the present unwieldy 



1 See also HoUister, N. H., List of the Mammals of the Philippine Islands, exclusive 

 of the Cetacea. Philippine Journ. Sci. sec. D., vol. vii, no. 1, pp. 1-64 (1912). 

 « Journ, Nat. Hist. Soc. Bomhay, XX, pp. 1012-23 (1911). 



