SCIURUS. 283 
Description.— Upper parts dark olive grey ; lower parts rich orange 
red ; the same colour being more or less continued along the under 
surface of the tail; the orange colour extends over the inside of the 
limbs, the front of the thigh and on the feet ; the fore-limbs are dusky 
outside, with pale rufous yellow feet. Its chief distinguishing mark is a 
brown well-defined dark band on the flanks between the colour of the 
upper and lower parts. 
No. 282. ScIuRUS BLANFORDII. 
Blanford’s Squirrel, 
Hasirat.—Upper Burmah. 
DeEscriptTion.—Pale grey above, finely punctulated with black and 
grey ; tailconcolorous, with a black tip; under parts pale orange yellow ; 
hands and feet yellow. Dr. Anderson shot a female at Pudeepyo, in 
the beginning of January, which had a distinct tendency to the forma- 
tion of a dusky lateral stripe, as in the last species ; the under-parts also 
were much more rich orange than in the type of this species. In the 
grey phase of S. caniceps that species is so like S. Blanfordii in the 
colouring of the upper parts and feet that it is almost impossible to 
distinguish them, but, according to Dr. Anderson, “on examining the 
under parts it is found that in these phases of .S. caniceps they are grey, 
whereas in SS. Blanfordii they are a beautiful rich orange, and the feet 
are yellow.” 
Before proceeding to the next species, which is a better marked one, 
I will quote one more passage from Dr. Anderson’s careful comparison 
of the four preceding squirrels. ‘‘.S. Phayrec corresponds in the colour 
of the upper fur to the yellow phase of S. caniceps, and the tail is the 
same as in it, having a black tip, which is the character also that that 
appendage has in S. pygerythrus. In some examples of S. Phayret the 
dusky or blackish is not confined to the lateral line, but extends over the 
outside of the fore-limbs, the feet being always yellow in squirrels present- 
ing these characters. Some specimens of S. pygerythrus show a distinct 
tendency to have yellow feet, and further research will probably prove 
S. Phayrei to be only a variety of S. pygerythrus. When Blyth first 
encountered this form, he simply regarded it as a variety of S. Aygery- 
thrus, and I believe his first opinion will be ultimately found to be 
more in accordance with the real interpretation of the facts than the 
conclusion he afterwards adopted. In the Paris Museum there is an 
example of S. Blanfordii from Upper Burmah which distinctly shows a 
dark lateral streak, so that, taking into consideration the other examples 
to which I have already referred, there seems to be a presumption that 
it and S. Phayrefare one and the same species, and that they are pro- 
