SCIITBUS. 387 



Distribution. Found in Sikhim and the Eastern Himalayas, ex- 

 tending eastward into China and as far as Formosa, also in the 

 Assam hills, Cachar and Manipur, throughout the Tenasserim 

 provinces and the Malay peninsula (I possess a specimen collected 

 by Mr. Davison and labelled Malacca), and in Siain and Cochin 

 China. I cannot find this species recorded from Arrakan or Pegu, 

 nor was it obtained by Hodgson at Katmandu in Nepal. All his 

 specimens apparently were from Darjiling. 



Varieties. Two very distinct races occur within our area : 



1. Typical S. mdcclellandi, from the Eastern Himalayas, has but 

 one black line on the back, in the middle, and only two distinct 

 pale stripes, one on each side. 



2. S. barbei, from Tenasserim, is altogether more brightly coloured 

 and has four distinct buff stripes on the back, two on each 

 side, and either 3 or 5 black stripes. Skins from Manipur are 

 iutermediate between the two races, and Chinese specimens 

 (S. macclellandi, var. swinhoei) are duller in colour than 

 Himalayan. 



Habits. This squirrel is found in high forest, and, so far as is 

 known, but rarely descends to the ground. 



258. Sciurus berdmorei. Berdmore's Squirrel. 



Sciurus berdmorei, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 603 (1849), xxviii, 

 p. 418 ; id. Cat. p. 106 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 37 ; Anderson, 

 An. Zool. Res. p. 261; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 71 ; Anderson, 

 Fauna Meryui Arch, i, p. 340. 



Sciurus mouhoti, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 137 : Stanford, J. A. S. B. 

 xlvii, pt. 2, p. 162. 



Muzzle long and narrow. Ears well clad. Tail with long hair 

 beneath. Soles of the hind feet bare to the heel, and smooth, not 

 tuberculated ; the outer posterior pad is linear, but anterior in 

 position to the long inner posterior pad. Three pairs of mammae, 

 ventral and inguinal. 



Colour above brown, finely speckled, rufescent on the back, 

 yellower or greyer on the sides. There are two pale yellowish or 

 whitish longitudinal bauds on each side ; the upper narrower and 

 better defined than the lower. Between the two and above the 

 upper pale band, the fur is da'rker as a rule and sometimes blackish, 

 and occasionally there is a short black band in the middle of the 

 back. Dorsal fur dusky at the base, then alternately orange and 

 black, usually two rings of each, the tip black. Lower parts white, 

 sometimes tinged with buff. Tail blackish, rendered hoary by the 

 white tips, sometimes indistinctly annulated ; hairs light brown or 

 rufous at the base, then black, then rufous again, then for a con- 

 siderable length black, to near the tips which are whitish. 



Dimensions. Head and body 7 inches, tail without hair 5-5, 

 with hair 7'5, hind foot 1-5 ; extreme length of skull 2. 



Distribution. Martaban and Tenasserim, Mergui Archipelago, 

 Cambodia and Cochin China. 



