JIarni/uilui. 127 



and iaterally compressed ; molars with tubercular erownt. Ears 

 erect ; eys lartje ; anlerwr jcet wth four lonq toes and a tuhtr- 

 de insteiidofa ihntttb; posterior with Jive long tois. nil furnished 

 with crool<rd nails Tml lung, villous, nvd Jiadenkd horizon(ulli/, 

 or lound ; two pectoral and six vntnil tents. 



Sciurns i(ida'''iscarrKsts,^ha\v. (Madagascar i^qnirrcl.) The 

 upper parts of the lioad and : eck, tlie back, tail, outer surfaces 

 of extremities, and all the feet, deep black ; the cheeks, under 

 part of nec'<, breast, and inner surfaces of anterior extremities, 

 yellowish white; bellvi and inner sides of hinder extrtiniiies, 

 brown mixed with yellow. Tail distich;)us. L'ligth fiom noso 

 to base of tail seventeen inches ; length of tail about eighteen 

 iches. 



Inhabits Madagascar, 



Shaw's Zoology n. part 1. 128. EcureuU de Madagascar. 

 Butf. Hist. Nat. Supp. vii, 



Sciurus Alyssinics. (Abyssinian Squirrel.) Rusty black 

 above ; belly and forc-fcet grey. Length from nose to base of 

 tail about two feet. 



Inhabits Abyssinia. 



Obs. Authors appear to consider this a' inial, described by Thevenot, 

 as not a well established species of Squirrel. 



Sciurns Getulns, Gmel. (Barbary Squirrel.) The head, 

 the upper parts of the body, the legs, feet, and tail, ash 

 coloured, inclining to red, darkest upon the upper parts of the 

 head and back ; on each side are two white or cream-coloured 

 stripes which extend from the shoulders to the hinder legs ; 

 belly white ; eyes large, and surrounded by a circle of whitish 

 hairs. Tail bushy, each hair annulated with light and dark 

 ash colours, Avhich tints are so disposed as to produce a sort of 

 striped appearance; nails black. Length from nose to base of 

 tail about eight inches ; tail nearly the same. 



Inhibits Barbary, and Northern Africa. 



Barbarian Squirrel, Edward, pi. 198. White-striped Squir- 

 rel, Pcnn. Qiiud.W. 150. Baresque, Buff. /. x. 



Sci'irvs Cipensis. Thunb. (African Cround-Squirrcl ) The 

 face, the upper parts of the head, the upper and lateral parts of 

 neck the back, the upper half of the sides, and ihe outer sur- 

 faces (if the extremities subferrugiiious, slightly pencil!ed with 

 white which ari.ses from some of the hairs being annulated with 

 (hat colour; sides of head, under parts of neck, breasr, belly, ^ 

 lower parts of sides, and inner surfaces of extremities, dull 

 white ; whiskers black ; external ears scarcely distinguishablj ; 

 a brownish r< d stripe under each eye ; the eyebrows and sides 

 of muzzle iacliaed to white, aud a uarrovr lilcticct white stripa 



