SCIURUS LOKIUOIDES. 169 



internally, yellow or yellowish-white. Ears ovate, acuminate, with 

 short hair, not tufted, or whitish externally, with a very small black tuft. 



Length, head and body, 12 to 13 inches ; tail 12, or with the hair 13^. 



The fur is coarse, slightly waved, and varies from maroon-black to 

 rufous-brown, and the hairs are often grizzled and tipped white and 

 yellow. In many specimens the anterior half is black or nearly so, and 

 the posterior parts light-brown. One that was sent to me from Travan- 

 core was of a grizzled yellow-brown colour above^ slightly darker on the 

 top of the head, beneath dii-ty straw-colour, the toes blackish-brown. 



Length 1 1 inches ; tail 1 0. 



Blyth mentions a ruddy-white or whitish isabelline vai'iety from 

 Ceylon. 



This squirrel is stated to have been sent from the jungles of Mysore 

 and the Neelgherries. I have only had it myself from Travancore, and 

 cannot speak with certainty of its geographic limits. 



aS'. ephippium, S. Mliller, from Borneo, is another species of this 

 division. 



The next group consists of squirrels of medium size, with grizzled fur. 

 They are peculiar to South eastern Asia and its islands, and, as Blyth 

 remarks, are extraordinarily developed in the Indo-Chinese countries 

 and Malayan peninsula, where the species or permanent races, would 

 seem to be almost endless, diflfering more or less in size and colouring. 

 In India they are confined to the south-east Himalayas, and the pro- 

 vinces north-east of Bengal. 



153. Sciurus Lokriah. 



Hodgson. — Blyth, Cat. 327. — S. suhjlaviventris, McLelland. — 

 Lokria, Nepal. — Zhcimo, Bhot. — Killi or Kalli tingdong, Lepch. 



The Orange-bellied Gray Squirrel. 



Descr. — Above dark grizzled olive-brown, the hairs tipped with 

 orange-colour ; beneath and thighs deep orange-yellow ; tail concolorous 

 with the body above, ferruginous beneath, distichous, flattened, rather 

 broad, with a double margin of black and hoary. 



Length, head and body, about 8 inches ; tail 6| to 8 (with the hair). 



154. Sciurus Lokrioides. 



Hodgson. — Blyth, Cat. 328. — S. Lohriah, apud Gray. 



