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Subfamily SCIURINAE. 



Genus RATUFA, Gray, 1867. 



Ratufa macroura. 



a. macroura macroura (Pennant). 



Ind. Zool., I, pi. i (1769), 



Typical locality. — Highlands of Ceylon. 

 Type. — Not in existence. 



9472 (A. S. B.). Ceylon (Dr. Kelaart) ; skin only. 



This specimen, though marked as the type of Sc. teanantii {sic.) 

 Layard (Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, XVIII, p. 600 ; 1849) cannot 

 I think so be regarded. The present specimen is that referred to by 

 Blyth two years later [op. cit., XX, p. 165 (1851)]. 



9283 (A. S. B.). Ceylon (Dr. Kelaart); skull only. 



b. macroura melanochroa, Thos. and Wrought. 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, XXIV, pp. 36, 90 (1915). 



Typical locality. — Southern Ceylon (Kottawa). 

 Type. — In British Museum. 



9278. Ceylon (Colombo Museum) [P.] ; skin and skull. 



9280. Ceylon (Zoological Gardens) ; skin only. 



c. macroura albipes (Blyth). 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXVIII, p. 287 (1859). 

 Typical locality. — Unkno\\ai. 



Type. — Once in the Medical College, Calcutta ; probably now not 

 in existence. 



9281. Nilgiris, Southern India (R. Rolls) 1845 ; skin. 



9279. (J Shevaroy Hills, Madras (W. Daly) ; skin and skull. 



Thomas and Wroughton have apparently overlooked the existence 

 of this form, which, however, is well characterised by Blyth. In view 

 of the fact that the continental and insular races of squirrels are almost 

 invariably distinct I have allowed the succeeding form to stand. 



d. macroura dandolena, Thos. and Wrought. 



Loc. cit. sujira, pp. 36, 90. 



Typical locality. — Lowland Ceylon, Wellawaya, Uva. 

 Type. — In British Museum, 



9779, 9785. Ceylon (E. L. Lavard) ; skins and skulls. 



9282. Ceylon (Dr. R. Templeton) ; skin and skull. 



The latter number is evidently the specimen described and figured 

 by Blyth as Sciurus macrourus {J. A. S. B., XVI, p. 869, pi. xxxvi, 

 fig. 2; 1847). 



It is, as stated in the description, a decidedly smaller animal. 

 Greatest length of present skull 67 as against 70 mm. in 9283. In colour 



