in the Collection of the British Museum. 285 



See Sciurus pygerythrus, I. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1832, with 

 underside of body and vent and the base of the tail red. It 

 may be the same as the former, if the second account of the 

 outer side of the Umbs is a shp of the pen for the inner side. 



*** Tail short, only as long as the body, reddish. 



35. Macroxus syriacus. 



Sciurus syriacus, Ehrenb. & Hemp. S. P. t. 8 ; Tristram, P. Z. S. 

 Sc. russata, Wagner, fide Verreaux : Schreb. S. iii. 155. 



Fur pale iron-grey (black, very closely varied with white) ; 

 sides of the head and neck, the shoulders, fore legs, sides of the 

 body, front edge of the thighs, and the fore feet red ; chin, 

 tliroat, chest, belly, and inner side of the limbs pale reddish yellow; 

 tail rufous, slightly grey-varied, with a greyish edge ; hairs ru- 

 fous, with a more or less wide subterminal black band, and grey 

 tips. 



Hab. Syria, Lebanon, under the cedars (Tristram) : B.M. 

 Brussa (Verreaux) : B.M. 



Var. pallescens. Paler iron-grey; sides of head, shoulders, 

 fore legs, and the fore feet pale yellowish ; chin and undei-side 

 of body and inner side of limbs white. 

 Sciurus syriacus, Verreaux. 



Hab. Asiatic Turkey ("Asie Turque,^' Verreaux). 



This animal, according to Ehrenberg and Hemprich, changes 

 its colour according to the season, being ashy in summer and 

 foxy in winter. The animal, by the shortness of its tail and in 

 general appearance, much resembles a Spermophilus ; but the 

 skull has the broad teeth and the high erect zygomatic arch of 

 the squirrel. The skull is also without the first upper grinder. 

 They are tree-squirrels, and abundant in the forests of Brussa 

 and on the cedars of Lebanon. 



e. Fur uniform red brown, or red punctulated with black and white. 

 Tail elongate, longer than the body and head, rather slender, 

 red. Middle size. Erytlirosciurus. 



36. Macroxus ferruyineus. 



Sciurus ferrugineus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. ; Blyth, 1847, 1862. 

 Sc. splendidus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 13/. 

 Sc. ruberrimus, Blyth, M. Z. Soc. 



Fur uniform, red bay, varying from dark chestnut to yellowish, 

 sometimes paler on the sides and beneath. 



Hab. Cambogia (Mouhot) : B.M. Arakan and Pegu (Blyth). 



