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Avith a tinge of ashy ; middle of back black, with a short yellowish 

 streak in the middle and a faint and shorter streak on each side ; tail 

 tipped black, rusty in the middle ; lower parts somewhat ferruginous. 



Size of the last, or a trifle larger. 



This well-marked race is found in the mountains of Travancore, and 

 in Ceylon. I have had skins from the former locality, but know nothing 

 peculiar in its habits, nor is its call recorded. 



158. Scinrus sublineatus. 



Waterhouse, p. Z. S. 1838. — Blyth, Cat. 342.— ^c. Delesserii, 

 Gervais, Mag. de Zool. 1842, and Zool. Voyage de Delessert, with 

 figure. 



The Neelgherry Striped Squirrel. 



Descr. — Of a dark grizzled olive-colour, tinged with tawny above, and 

 with three pale lines alternating with four dark ones on the back and 

 croup, the outer dark lines narrower and somewhat less dark than the 

 others ; beneath lighter, more mixed with tawny ; tail grizzled dusky- 

 olive and ferruginous. Fur remarkably dense, close, and soft. 



Length, head and body, 5^ to 6 inches ; tail 6. 



I first procured this small squirrel on the Neelgherries in the dense 

 woods there ; where, however, it is by no means common. T have since 

 killed it in Wynaad and Coorg, but only at considerable elevations. It 

 has been sent to Mr. Blyth from the mountains of Travancore, and is 

 also found in Ceylon, at Newera-ellia, and other localities. Blyth 

 remarks that this squirrel is somewhat allied to .S> insiguis, Horsfield, 

 from Java. 



159. Sciurus McClellandi. 



Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839.— Blyth, Cat. 344.— Perhaps Sc. No. 135, 

 Hodgson, New edit. British Mus. Collection, called in the preface 

 /S. chikhura ? olim S. Pembertoni, Blyth. — Kalli Gangdin, Lepcli. 



The Small Himalayan Squirrel. 



Descr. — General hue dull brownish-fulvous grizzled with black ; under 

 parts whitish-brown ; a black stripe on the nose anterior to the whiskers ; 

 a black mesial stripe from near the shoulders to the croup, and a narrow 

 lateral black stripe, with a broader fulvous one external to it from the 



