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black, forming a pencil tuft three inches long. In some specimens the 
centre dorsal streak is bright orange, the two intervening bands being 
jet black. In those in which the streaks are pale, the intervening bands 
differ only from the surrounding fur in being darker, but are grizzled 
like it. There is a narrow rufous area round the eye; the whiskers are 
black ; the under-parts and inside of limbs are bright reddish-chestnut, 
and this colour extends along the under-part of the tail. Jerdon calls this 
squirrel the Travancore striped squirrel, but I see no reason to retain 
this name, as it is not peculiar to Travancore, but was first found in 
Ceylon by Mr. E. Layard, after whom Blyth named it. 
No. 292. SCIURUS SUBLINEATUS. 
The Dusky-striped Ground-Squirrel (Jerdon’s No, 158). 
Hasitat.—The mountains of Ceylon and Southern India. 
DESCRIPTION.—Smaller than the palm squirrel; fur soft, dense, 
grizzled olive brown; base of hairs dusky black; three pale and four 
dark lines on the back and croup, the lineation being obscure, and 
reaching only from the shoulder to the sacral region. Under-parts 
variable, but always dusky, never bright, from grey to dusky brown 
washed with rufous ; tail concolorous with the upper part of the body 
and obscurely annulated. 
S1ze.—Head and body, 5 to 6 inches ; tail, 44 to 6 inches. 
Kellaart calls this the Mewara Elia ground-squirrel, and Jerdon the 
_Neilgherry striped squirre, but, as it is not peculiar to either one or 
the other place, I think it better to adopt another popular name. It is 
common about Newara Elia and Dimboola, but it does not seem to 
descend lower than 3000 feet. In Southern India it is found in the 
Neilgherries, Wynaad and Coorg, but only at considerable elevations. 
No. 293. ScruruSs McCLELLANDI. 
McClelland’s Ground-Squirre ( Jerdon’s No. 159). 
Native NaMe.—Xadli-gangdin, Lepcha. 
Hasirat.—* This species has a wide distribution, ranging from Nepal 
and Thibet to the east of China and Formosa, and through Assam and 
Cachar south-eastward to Tenasserim and Siam.”—Anderson. 
DESCRIPTION.—General hue olive brown, each hair having a blackish 
tip, a sub-apical yellow band, and a slaty black base. A pale yellowish 
band on the side of the nose, passing underneath the eye and ear along 
the side of the neck, and continued along the side of the back to the 
base of the tail ; its upper margin has a dusky line ; a narrow black line 
from between the shoulders over the vertebrz to the root of the tail; 
