SCIURUS. 291 
tail grizzled dark above, fulvous beneath ; whiskers black; limbs con- 
colorous with the body: ears small, black edged, fulvous white within, 
and with white pencil tufts. 
Size.—Head and body, 5 inches ; tail, 4 inches. 
Dr. Anderson obtained this species at Ponsee in Burmah, at an 
elevation of 3500 feet, and Dr. Jerdon, at Darjeeling, at from 4000 to 
6000 feet. This species is synonymous with Blyth’s S. Barber. 
No. 294. ScIluRUS BERDMOREI. 
Berdmorés Ground-Squirrel, 
HasiTaT.—Tenasserim and Martaban. 
DescRIPTION.—General colour brownish, with a distinct rufous tinge 
on the middle of the back. It is punctulated with yellowish on the head, 
sides of face and body and outside of limbs, and with rich rufous on the 
middle of the back. An obscure narrow black line along the middle 
of the back from between the shoulders, but only extending half way 
down the trunk. On the sides of the back a yellow line from shoulder 
to articulation of femur ; this is margined below with a broad black band, 
and above by an obscure dusky line. There is a bread pale yellow 
linear area below the former of these two dark bands, the portion of the 
side below it being concolorous with the thighs and fore-limbs. The 
rufous area of the back is confined between the two uppermost yellow 
lines ; ears are large; all under-parts white, slightly washed here and 
there with yellowish ; the tail moderately bushy, all the hairs annulated 
with four alternative orange and black bands, the terminal black band 
being occasionally tipped with white, and being as broad as the three 
remaining bands, so that the tail has a decidedly black tint washed with 
whitish, the orange bands, however, appearing through the black. 
SizE.—Head and body, about 7? inches ; tail without hair, 5 inches. 
No. 295. ScIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS. 
The Stripe-bellied Squirrel. 
Hasirat.—Kakhyen hills, on the Burmo-Chinese frontier. 
DescripTion.— Above grizzled olive, brownish-grey, with a distinct 
rufous tint, deepest on the dorsal surface; annulation fine, as in the 
grizzled squirrels generally ; chin and throat obscurely grizzled greyish, 
washed with reddish; a rufous grizzled blackish-brown band from the 
chest along the middle line of the belly to the vent; external of this, 
on either side, a broad pure white well-defined band from the side to 
the chest along the belly and prolonged along the inguinal region to the 
vent ; a broad black band from the hollow of the axilla along the side 
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