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243. Sciums locria. The orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel. 



Belarus lokriah, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. v, p. 232 (1836) ; Blyth, J. A. 



S. B. xvi, p. 873, xxiv, p. 475 ; id. Cat, p. 104 ; id. Mam. Birds 



Burma, p. 37 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 169 ; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. 



p. 250 



Sciurus locria, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. x, p. 915. 

 Sciurus subflaviventris, MacClelland, Gray, List Mam. B. M. p. 144 



(1843), no description ; Horsfield, Cat. p. 152. 

 Lokria, Nepal ; Zhamo, Bhot. ; Kalli or Kalli ting-dong, Lepcha. 



Tail shorter than the head and body. Snout elongate, narrow. 

 Teeth small. Length of the five upper molars together about half 

 that of the nasals. Three pairs of mammae, 1 pectoral, 2 inguinal. 



Colour above usually dark rufous-brown, slightly speckled, 

 sometimes speckled dark yellowish brown, sides a little paler. 

 Dorsal fur leaden black at the base, the longer hairs having a 

 single yellow ring and a long black tip. A white or whitish patch 

 behind each ear, often concealed by the conch. Lower parts from 

 chin to vent more or less orange, varying from pale to bright 

 rusty red ; the rufous colour is often confined to the middle of the 

 abdomen, and passes gradually into the brown of the sides. Tail 

 not distinctly annulated, blackish or dark brown throughout, 

 sometimes hoary, the hair whitish or pale rufous at the base, 

 then deeper rufous, a dusky ring intervening sometimes, the 

 terminal portion black, sometimes with the extreme tip white. 



Dimensions. Head and body 8 inches, tail without hair 5-75, 

 with hair 8*25; basal length of skull 1-2, extreme length 2, 

 zygornatic breadth 1-1. Weight 7 ounces. 



Distribution. Nepal, Sikhim, and hills north and south of Assam, 

 Manipur, and Arrakan. This species occurs chiefly, perhaps 

 exclusively, at some elevation above the sea, in Sikhim up to 7000 

 or 8000 feet. 



This squirrel may be distinguished from S. locroides by its 

 longer and more pointed nose and smaller molars, by having one 

 yellow ring instead of two on the longer dorsal hairs, by the 

 whitish patch behind the ear, and by the want of distinct annula- 

 tion in the tail-hairs, also generally by being more rufous above 

 and below. To the same peculiar group as S. locria belong 

 S. pernyi and S. rufigenis, the three being in fact little more than 

 local races of the same species. 



244. Sciums mfigenis. The red-cheeked Squirrel. 

 Sciurus rufigenis, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xlvii. pt. 2, p. 156, pis. vii. 

 viii (1878) ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 71. 



Tail without hair considerably shorter than the head and body. 

 Snout elongate, pointed. Much woolly underfur mixed with the 

 hair on the back. 



Colour above and on sides of tody a fine mixture of yellow and 

 black, the general tint speckled yellowish brown, darker in the 

 middle of the back. Dorsal hair's dark slaty at the base, then 



