in the Culledion of the British Museum. 273 



as the body, hairs with two or three broad black and yellow 

 rings ; end of the nose yellowish. 

 Hab. Celebes. B.M. 



3, Sciurus leucocephalus. 



Dark blackish grey, varied with white tips to the hairs ; 

 head, ears, throat, underside of body, outer and inner sides of 

 limbs, and underside of the tail white or yellowish white. Tail 

 as long as the body and head, with black, largely white-tipped 

 hairs ; ears fringed with elongate hairs. 



Hab. Asia? "B.M. (a male). 



See also Sciurus erythraus, Pallas, not Swinhoe, which is a 

 Macroxus. 



4. Sciurus historicus. 



Sciurus syriacus, Verreaux, Cat., not Ehrenb. 



Fur elongate, soft, full, blackish grey, closely and minutely 

 punctulated with white ; head, neck, and shoulders with a reddish 

 tint ; chin, throat, underside of the body, fore legs, and fore feet 

 rufous. Tail as long as the body, blackish, reddish-grey-varied, 

 with broad reddish edges and tip, hairs rufous, with a broad 

 subterminal black band and reddish tip; ears with longish rigid 

 hairs, forming a fringe and slight pencil. 



Hab. Syria (Verreaux). B.M. 



Differs from Sciurus syriacus of Ehrenberg and Tristram in 

 the pencilled ears, the darkness and length of the fur, the dark 

 colour of the shoulders, and the red being confined to the sides 

 of the belly and not extending up the sides of the body. 



III. Ears with a puff of soft hairs on the outer surface. 

 * Tail elongate, longer than the body and head: large-sized. Ratufa. 



5. Sciurus indicus. 



Sciurus maximus, Schreb. Saugeth. t. 217; Horsf. Zool. Java, t. = Great 



Squirrel, Shaw. 

 Sc. indicus, Erxl., 1777 ■ 



Sc. bombayus, Bodd. = Bomia?/ Squirrel, Penn., 1785. 

 Sc. purpureus, Zimm. 



Fur red brown; thighs, loins, rump, and tail black; cheeks 

 and occipital band fulvous. 

 Hab. India, Malabar. B.M. 



Var. Elphinstonii. 

 Sc. Elphinstonii, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 103. 

 Hab. Dukhun (Sykes). B.M. 

 Varies greatly in the intensity of the colour. 



