SCIURUS. 285 
No. 284. ScIURUS ERYTHRAUS. 
The Assam Red-bellied Squirrel, 
Hasitat.—Assam, Garo hills, Munipur. 
DESCRIPTION.—The upper parts glistening deep reddish-black, 
minutely grizzled with light fulvous or yellowish-brown, each hair 
having two annulations ; under parts and inside of limbs dark reddish 
maroon ; feet black; tail concolorous with the back from the basal 
third, then gradually less grizzled ; the terminal half black ; whiskers 
black. Pallas describes the black of the tail as passing upwards in a 
mesial line. 
S1zE.—Head and body, about g to ro inches ; tail with hair, from 11 
to 12 inches. 
No. 285. Scriurus GORDONI. 
Gordon’s Squirrel. 
Hapitat.—Upper Burmah. 
DEscrIPTION.—Dr. Anderson, who first named this species, describes 
it as follows : «“ S. Gordoni has the upper surface and a narrow line from 
between the fore-limbs along the middle of the body grizzled olive-brown 
or greyish, with a variable rufous tint ; the annulations are not so fine as in 
S. erythreus, ‘The chin and sides of the throat are paler grizzled than on 
the back and the lower part of the throat ; the chest, belly, and inside of 
the limbs are either pale yellow or rich orange-yellow, or passing into 
pale chestnut in the Assam variety, in which the belly is rarely lineated. 
The ears are feebly pencilled; the tail has the same proportion as in 
S. erythreus and S. castaneoventris* but it is more persistently and 
uniformly concolorous with the body than in these species, and is finely 
ringed with black and yellow, the rings being most distinct on the latter 
fourth ; the tip is generally washed with orange yellow” (‘ Anat. and 
Zool. Res, 7 
SizE.—Head and body, 9 inches; tail, 7 inches. 
No. 286. ScIURUS HIPPURUS. 
The Chestnut-bellied Assam Squirrel, 
Hapitat.—Assam ; also in the Malayan peninsula. 
DESCRIPTION.— Upper parts of the body, with base of tail yellowish- 
rufous, punctulated with yellow and black ; the lower parts deep ruddy 
ferruginous or chestnut ; feet, tail (which is bushy) and whiskers black. 
Dr. Anderson, however, mentions several varieties. He writes: 
“The specimen in the British Museum referred by Dr. Gray to S. rufo- 
gaster, var. Borneoensis differs from Malayan specimens in having portions 
* A Chinese species: Western China, Formosa and Hainau.—R. A. S. 
