SCIURIDZ—SCIURUS BOTTA. Tg (5) 
in the same. lot were specimens of Sciurus @stuans and Se. iaxgsdorfi, well- 
known South American species; it is probable, therefore, it may be an inhab- 
itant of the same country. Its fur is very short for a Squirrel, rather harsh, 
and less loose than in the generality of Squirrels: the back is gray, or what 
might be termed an iron-gray, having a rusty hue; on the upper part of the 
head the rust-like tint prevails, and the muzzle is almost entirely of a rich 
rust color; the sides of the head and neck are of a golden-yellow tint, and 
the under parts of the body are yellow: a bright rust-colored line rvns along 
each side of the body, and separates thé yellow coloring of the under parts 
from the iron-gray of the-upper; on the outer sides of the limbs, and on the 
feet, a rich deep golden-yellow hue prevails. The tail is apparently cylindri- 
cal, and not bushy; the prevailing hue of the heirs is deep rust color, but 
they are for the most part more or less broadly annulated with black in the 
middle. The ears are slightly pointed, and well clothed with golden-yellow 
hairs; those on the outer side are of a bright rust color; they have no pencil 
of hairs at the tip. The hairs of the moustaches are numerous, long, and of 
a black color. The incisors of both upper and under jaws are deep orange.” 
Gray’s description of Waterhouse’s original specimen is as follows:— 
“Fur rather harsh, abundant, reddish iron-gray ; hairs short, close, black at 
the base, with a broad pale-brown ring, a dark-brown subterminal ring, and a 
white tip; upper part of head, shoulders, legs, thighs, and feet, and a streak 
along each side of the body rufous; sides of the head, chin, and beneath yel- 
low: tail reddish, black-varied; hairs reddish-brown, with a broad black sub- 
terminal ring and reddish end, and gray base.” 
Dr. Gray adds,—‘‘ This specimen was purchased at a sale with some South 
American Squirrels; but it has much more the appearance of an African 
Squirrel. No other specimen of this Squirrel has occurred to me; so the 
true habitat is still doubtful.” 
3.—Sciurus Botta Less. 
Sciurus bottw Lesson, Cent. Zool. 1832, 221, pl. Ixxvi; ‘‘ Desc. des Mamm. et Ois. 1847, 140”.—WaGner 
Suppl. Schreber’s Siinget. iii, 1843, 1843, 172 (from Lesson ).—ScHINZ, Synop. Mam. ii, 1¢46 
10 (from Lesson). See also Barrp, Mamm. N. Amer. 1857, 281. 
The Sciurus botte, described by Lesson from a specimen said to have 
come from California, agrees well with nothing I have as yet met with, 
and is certainly in some respects unlike any animal at present known from 
either the California of to-day or the California of fifty years ago. It is evi- 
