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23. Macroxus chinensis. 

 Sciurus chinensis, Gray, L. M, B. M. 144. 



Fur dark olive, minutely punctulated with yellow ; chin, 

 throat, belly, and inner side of limbs greyish white ; tail elongate, 

 black, with long white tips to the hairs ; tip blackish ; hairs 

 pale brown at the lower half, with a broad black band and a 

 grey tip. 



Hab. China (John Reeves). B.M., type. 



Var. Head and shoulders paler yellow ; tail dull brown, with 

 grey tips to the hairs. China. B.M. 



See also Sciurus exilis, S. Miiller, Verb. t. 15. f. 4, 5, 6. 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



24. Macroxus inornatus. 



Fur olive-grey, very closely and minutely punctulated wath 

 reddish yellow ; throat, inner side of limbs, and beneath pale 

 bluish grey, washed with whitish ; feet like back ; tail longer 

 than the body and head, coloured like the back, with elongated 

 white-tipped black hairs at the tip ; hairs of the tail yellow, with 

 three black bands. Middle size. 



Hab. Loo Mountains (Mouhot). B.M. 



b. Chest grey, punctulated like the back ; belly reddish yellow ; 

 tail indistinctly white-ringed. 



25. Macroxus griseopectus. 



Sciurus griseopectus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvi. 873, t. 36. 

 Sc. Fortuni, Parzudaki, MS. 



Fur dark olive grey, closely and minutely yellow-punctulated; 

 throat and chest grey, like back, but paler ; belly, inner side of 

 limbs, and front of thighs pale red brown ; face black ; tail like 

 back, obscurely white-ringed, end black ; hairs pale, with black 

 rings and a grey tip. 



i/a6. China (Cuming). Type in B.M. 



26. Macroxus leucopus. 



Fur olive grey, minutely punctulated with yellow ; lower side 

 of neck like back ; hinder part of throat and belly, front of thighs 

 and hind legs reddish grey ; feet white ; tail elongate, coloured 

 like the back, grey, and black-ringed at the tip ; hairs grey, 

 with several subequal broad black rings. Middle size. 



Hab. Carnbogia (Mouhot). B.M., male adult. 



See also Sciurus persicus, Gmelin, Beise, iii. 379, t. 45. Sc. 

 vulgaris persicus, Erxl., Gilan, in Persia. ? Sc. anomalus, Giil- 

 denst. in Schreb. Saugeth. 781, t. 215 c. Sc. caucasicus, Schm. 

 Sc. erythr<jeus, Penn., Georgia (not Kuhl). Hab. Caucasus. 



