in the Collection of the British Museum. 331 



with a longitudinal white streak along each side ; cheeks with 

 two pale streaks ; chin, sides of neck, throat, underside of body, 

 and inner side of legs pale grey : tail obscurely annulated ; hairs 

 yellowish, with a broad subterminal black band. 



Hab. Congo (Tuckey ; Kuhl, type, B.M.). 



Very like ;Sc. pyrrhopus ; but the dorsal streaks are higher up 

 the sides, the shoulders and thigVis are grey, like the rest of the 

 fur, the tail much more distinctly ringed, and the face has pale 

 streaks. The specimen is not half the size of Sc. poensis ; and 

 it has no appearance of youth. A half-grown specimen of the 

 latter species in the Museum has the shoulders, thighs, and 

 sides as red as the adult. It is well figured by Peters, but 

 rather paler than the Museum specimen. 



See also Sciurus leucostigma, Temm. Esq. 133, from Guinea. 

 See Sciurus superciliaris, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. iii. 212. 

 Giebel refers it to Sc. annulatus ! 



d. The shoulders and fore part of the sides with a short pale 



streak. 



13. Macroxus erythrogenys. 



Sciurus erythrogenys, Waterli. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 12.9; Fraser, Z.T. t. 26. 

 Sc. leucogenys, Waterh. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 203. 



Fur blackish, minutely punctulated with white or yellow, 

 rather paler on the sides ; sides of head reddish ; chin, throat, 

 chest, belly, and inner side of the limbs white : tail black, washed 

 with grey, end black ; hairs black, yellowish at the base, with a 

 short grey tip. Young and adult are exactly alike. 



Hab. Fernando Po. B.M., Mr. Waterhouse^s type. 



e. The back with two pale streaks on each side ; sides brown 



beneath the outer stripes. 



14. Macroxus getulus. 



Sciurus getulus, Linn. S. N. i. 87; Gervais, Mag. Zool. 1842, p. 4. 



IXefus getulus, Temm. 



Barbarian Squirrel, Etlvv. Birds, iv. t. 195. 



L'Ecureuil barbaresque, Buffon, H. N. x. 141 (copied Schreb. t. 221). 



Hab. Mogador, Morocco (M, Delaporte). Mus. Paris. 



This is a species that I have not seen in any English collec- 

 tion. The animal sent by Mr. Drummond-Hay from Morocco 

 as the Ground- Squirrel is Xerus trivittatus. It is to be observed 

 that Temminck refers Sc. getulus to the genus Xerus ; so that 

 he probably called X. trivittatus Sc. getulus; but M. Gervais, 

 who described a soft-furred squirrel from Morocco, which is 

 the one described by Edwards and Buffon as Sciurus getulus, 

 also refers it to the genus Xerus ! 



