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14. Ratufa melanopepla leucogenys. 



Riitufa niehtiwpejila U>uc'()</ciii/s, Kloss, P.Z.S., 1910, p. 43. 



Sciunix hicdhir, Blaiit'orJ (partiin), Faiiii. Brit. Ind., Mamni., p. 373 



(1891). 

 Ji'idiifii iiieh:nui]iejila, Gyldenstolpe, Arkiv fur Zoologi, Stoekholra, 8, 

 No. 23, p.l5 (1914). 



1 9 adult, Ki-abin, Central Siam. Nov. 1915 [No. 2050]. 



1 c? adult, Hiulap, Eastern Siam, 900ft. Dec. 1915 [No. 2066]. 



One of these is without the patches of buff hair on the hind 

 feet which occurs in all tlie other specimens I have examined. 



Upper surface and entire tail, brownish black, the hairs with 

 glistening black tips ; a russet patch on the nape. Undersnrface, pale 

 orange-yellow, chin, black. Cheeks, sides of neck, upper side of fore- 

 limbs in part, and generally a patch on the top of the hind-feet, 

 creamy. 



Native collector's external measurements * : — head and body, 

 383, 4.11 ; tail, 469, 482 ; hind foot, 79,83 mm. 



Skull: greatest length, 73, 73; oondylo-basilar length, 61.3 

 61.2 ; palatilar length, 28, 27 ; diastema, 14.3, 14.7 ; greatest length of 

 nasals, 23.3, 26 ; greatest breadth of na.sals, 14, 14 ; interorbital 

 breadth, 28, 28.7 ; z}'gomatic breadth, 45.2, 45.1 mm. 



15. Ratufa pyrsonota. 



J'iitiif(( jii/rmnokt, MilU'r, Proe. Biol. Soc. Washington, II, p 75, 

 (1900).' 



\6 aged. Khao Wang Hip ( Upper camp ), Peninsular Siam. 



Sept. 1915. [No. 2030]. 



This speckled giant-squirrel inhabits Peninsular Siam, but 

 extends as far south as Taiping, Perak: to the north I have seen 

 it near Victoria Point, Tenasserim, but obtained no specimens, 

 nor is it included in the list of mammals collected there by Mr. G. C. 

 Shortridge ( Wroughton, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXIII, 

 p. 695). 



The general colour above is a fine speckle of ochraceous and 

 dark brown, more tawny but less speckled on the limbs : the under- 



* The measnremont.f are those ol' the fouiale and male respoetively. 

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