in the Collection of the British Museum. 433 



of limbs white ; sides of the body and belly grey. Brazil ? 

 B.M. 



3 1 . Macroxus pusillus. 



Sciurus pusillus, Geoff., Desm, Mara. 337; Gray, List Mam. B. M. (part.). 



Macroxus pusillus, Lesson. 



Le petit Guerlinguet, BufFon, H.N. Supp. vii. 261, t. 66. 



Fur soft, dark olive, yellow -grey- washed ; head redder ; hairs 

 blackish from the base, with yellow-grey tips; cheeks, chin, 

 throat, chest, and belly yellowish grey; hairs dark lead-coloured, 

 with yellow-grey tips ; ear-tufts none or very small : tail slen- 

 der, cylindrical, black slightly varied with yellow ; the hairs of 

 the base yellow, with a basal and subterminal black band and a 

 yellow tip, those of the tip black, with a yellowish base. 



Hab. Tropical America : B.M. Cayenne (Buffon). 



A very small species : body and head 4^ inches long. The front 

 of the shoulders and thighs yellower than the rest of the body. 



32. Macroxus Kuhlii. 



Sciurus leucotis, Castelnau, MS. (not Gapper). 



Sciurus Kuhlii, Gray. B.M. 



Sc. pusillus, Gray, L. M. B. M. 139 (not Geoff. ?). 



Fur soft, nearly uniform olive, slightly washed with yellowish; 

 chin and underside rather paler and yellower; a white spot 

 above the base of each ear; tail blackish, whitish-washed; hairs 

 yellow, with a bi-oad subterminal band and white tip. 



Hab. Brazil (Castelnau). B.M. 



See also : — 

 Sciurus (Macroxus) Adolphei, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1812, p. 130. 

 South America. 



Sciurus gilvigularis, Wagner, Miinch. Akad. 1850, v. 283. 

 Brazil, Rio Madeiro (Wagnei-). 



Sciurus igniventer, Natterer, Wiegm. Arch. 1842, i. Rio Negro 



(Natterer). 

 Sciurus pyrrhonotus, Natterer, Wiegm. Arch. 1842, i. Brazil, 



Borba (Natterer). 



Sciurus variabilis, I. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1832, t. 4; S. Baird, M. 

 N. A. 283. Columbia (I. Geoff.). 



Sciurus stramineus, Eydoux, Zool. de la Bonite, t. 9. Peru. 



Sciurus tricolor, Tschudi, Fauna Peru. 156, t. 11 (Wagner). 



North Peru (Tschudi). 

 Sciurus aurocapillus, Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 38, of Jamaica, is 



a bird, and should have been called Seiurus. 



