SCIUBUS. 375 



Dimensions. Head and body 13 to 15| inches, tail rather less, or 

 with the hair rather more. Basal length of skull 2-15, width 

 across zygomatic arches 1'6. 



Distribution. Ceylon and the Southern part of the Indian 

 Peninsula, in forests, especially hill-forest. The most northerly 

 localities known are the Shevaroy Hills (whence skins have been 

 sent to me by Mr. Daly), Mysore, and the Nilgiris. 



Varieties. The colour varies considerably, and according to 

 Kelaart changes from dark brown to grizzled grey with the 

 seasons, but the only race deserving of notice is that called 

 S. tennantii by Layard. This is peculiar to the higher ranges in 

 Ceylon, is decidedly larger in size thai typical S. macruras, and has 

 the upper parts, tail, and toes perfectly black, some white tips 

 being occasionally, not always, found on the hair of the tail. 

 Forearm and tibia outside and inside coloured like the abdomen 

 as usual. 



I can find nothing especial recorded of the habits. 



242. Sciurus ferrugineus. The lay Squirrel. 



Sciurus ferrugineus, F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. Mam. pi. 238 (1829) ; Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxi, p. 332 ; id. Cat. p. 101 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, 

 p. 36 ; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 243 ; M. -Edwards, Bull. Soc. 

 Philom. ser. 7, i, p. 16. 



Sciurus keraudrenii, Reynaud, Lesson, Cent. Zool. p. 11, pi. i (1830) ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 872, xxiv, p. 474 j Stanford, J. A. S. B 

 xxxi, p. 194. 



Colour rich ferruginous red almost throughout, varying from 

 bright to deep chestnut and to brownish red, the middle of the back 

 sometimes darker, the paws occasionally blackish, and the end of 

 the tail in one variety white. 



Dimensions. Head and body 8 to 10 inches, tail without hair 9 

 to 12, with hair 11 to 15, hind foot 1-85 to 2-1. The large 

 dimensions are from a Bhamo specimen, the smaller from a 

 Rangoon one preserved in spirit. 



Distribution. Throughout Upper Burma, Arrakan, Pegu, and 

 Siam, but not recorded from Martaban or Tenasserim. Common 

 near Bangoon. I have a skin of a rusty-red squirrel from Sikhirn 

 which may belong to the present species. 



Varieties. In Burma the variation in this squirrel is only from 

 bright chestnut to brownish red, but Anderson and others unite 

 with this form the white S.finlaysoni from Siam, the jet-black 

 S. germani from the island of Sichang, and other forms, some of 

 them grizzled brown. If S.Jinlaysoni be really identical, the name 

 which was given by Horsfield, in his ' Zoological Eesearches in 

 Java,' published in 1824, has priority over S. ferrugineus. See 

 Anderson, 1. c. 



