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of the belly, expanding on the inside of the thighs, where it is faintly 
washed with greyish; inside of the fore-limbs blackish, washed with 
greyish ; toes black, with rufous annulations. ‘Tail nearly as long as the 
body and head, concolorous with body, but the black and rufous 
annulations much broader and more marked, assuming the form of 
indistinct rufous and black rings on the posterior third ; tip of tail jet 
black, narrowly terminated with greyish..—Dvr. J. Anderson in ‘ Proc. 
Zool. Soc.’ 1871, p. 142. 
S1zE.—Head and body, about 94 inches ; tail, 7} inches. 
This curious squirrel was first discovered and named by Dr. Anderson, 
who states that it was common at Ponsee on the Kakhyen range of hills 
east of Bhamo, at an elevation of from 2000 to 3000 feet, and as yet 
it has only been found on those hills. There is a coloured plate of it in 
the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1871. 
The next animal forms a curious link in resemblance between the 
Tupaiide and the squirrels. I mentioned some time back that the first 
Tupaia was taken fora squirrel; and certainly, to look at this long-snouted 
squirrel, one might easily be misled into supposing it to be a Tupaia, 
till an examination of its dentition proved, it to be a rodent. It is 
supposed to be a Malayan species, but I was shown not long ago a 
specimen in Mr. Hume’s collection which I understood Mr. Davison 
to say he had procured in Burmah, It has been classed by Dr. Gray 
in a separate genus, AAinosciurus. 
No. 296. SciuRUS (RHINOSCIURUS) TUPAOIDES. 
The Long-nosed Squirrel. 
Hapitat.—The Malayan peninsula and Borneo, and I believe the 
Tenasserim provinces. 
DESCRIPTION.—This animal differs from all other squirrels by the 
extreme length of its pointed muzzle, with which is associated a long 
and narrow skull. The coloration varies from light to dark, and almost 
blackish-brown ; the tail is shorter than the body, moderately bushy, 
narrow at the base, but expanding towards the tip ; the hairs are broadly 
banded with four alternate pale and dark brown bands, the last being 
the darkest and broadest, with a pale tip; the under-parts are white in 
some, rich orange yellow in others. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 7% inches ; tail reaches to the eye. 
The Flying Squirrels next engage our attention. In several groups 
of animals of strictly arboreal habits, nature has gone beyond the 
ordinary limits of agility afforded by muscular limbs alone, and has 
supplemented those limbs with elastic membranes which act like a 
