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deep maroon above, usually with a pale yellowish tip ; the under 

 parts are more or less deeply colored. 



About the same size as the last. This race inhabits Central 

 India, whence often brought alive to Calcutta. I have seen it in 

 the forest at the foot of the Puehmurri hills, near Seonee, and in 

 the vast jungles of Bustar, where it is very abundant ; also in 

 Goomsoor." 



He then describes the Bombay red squirrel, Sciurus Elphin- 

 stonei, as follows : 



" Ears and whole upper surface of the body, and halfway down 

 the tail, outside the hind-legs, and halfway down 4he fore- legs out- 

 side, of an uniform rich reddish chesnut ; the whole under surface 

 of the body from the chin to the vent, inside of the limbs and 

 lower part of the fore-legs, crown of head, cheeks and posterior 

 half of the tail, of a fine reddish-white, the two colors being separated 

 by a defined line, and not merging into each other ; feet light-red ; 

 forehead and nose reddish-brown, with some white hairs inter- 

 mixed. Ears tufted. 



Length of one, head and body 20 inches ; tail 18. 



The Bombay red squirrel is found in the northern portion of the 

 Western Ghats, extending into North Malabar. 



It is probably the species found on the Mahableshwar Hills. 

 Mr. Elliot records S. maximus as being the species of the forests 

 of the Southern Mahratta Country, but alludes to this as a variety 

 found in the Ghats. 



No. 151 of Jerdon is the Black Hill squirrel, Sciurus Macru- 

 roides, well known in Burmah, but which he seems to think he may 

 have observed in a wood near Kotagherry on the Neilgherries. 



Description. "Uniform dark blackish-brown or black above, 

 beneath and round the lower part of the limbs fulvous white ; 

 posterior limbs wholly black externally, and the anterior ones black 

 behind, and more or less so externally ; a black cheek-band ; 

 cheeks fulvous-grey with a large triangular patch ; a rusty-red 

 spot between the ears, which are sometimes pretty densely tufted. 



Length, head and body lo inches ; tail with the hair 16. 



