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We iiuist take it that M. pyrsonota differs from the latter not so 

 much ill the colour of the feet as in the markedly annulated and 

 ochraceous \ipper surface. 



According to Mr. Bonhote, who last reviev^'^ed the squirrels of 

 the Prevostii group (A. and M. N. H., 7, vii, 1901, p. 169), we have 

 only two forms inhabiting the Peninsula : Scmrtis prevostii typictis, 

 in which the lateral white stripe runs unbroken from top of 

 nose to heel of hind foot (extending also down the outer side of the 

 fore limb), and S. p. Inmiei, which has the shoulders fulvous-red, the 

 colour of the fore limb extending upwards until it meets the black of the 

 back. S. p. typicus appears to be confined to the southern extremity 

 of the Peninsula ranging to Malacca, v»'itli perhaps Kegri Sembilan, 

 and the southern half of Pahang : I have examined Pahang examples 

 from Tras, Liang and from the lower course of the Pahang River 

 (Lebeli Tua). Examples of 8. p. Immei, Bonh., are known to me 

 from Southern Perak (Blanja and Sungkai) and from localities through- 

 out Selangor. 



Two individuals of this group from Lipis and others from elsewhere 

 fit with neither of these descriptions. From the first, they differ in 

 having a variable degree of fulvous wash on the shoulders, and from 

 the second, in that the colouring of the shoulders is never so intense or 

 so large in extent. Their area of distribution seems to surround the 

 red- shouldered form on the north and east, and I propose that in- 

 dividuals of this appearance should be known as : 



8. SCIURUS PREVOSTII WRAYI, subsi^. nov. 



Type. — Adult male (skin and skull), 'No. 1,330/10, Selangor Museum. 

 Collected at Genting, Kuala Lipis, Pahang, 11th May, 1910, by 

 C. Boden Kloss. Original No. 3,261. 



Characters. — Eesembles Sciurus prevostii, Desm., but has the 

 shoulders washed with the *fulvous colour of the fore legs: differs from 

 8. p. liumei, Bonhote, in that the colouring of the shoulders is much 

 less intense and frequently falls short of the black of the back. 



Colour. — Above deep shining black. Below, including the entire 

 fore limbs to elbows and the hind feet, a rich fulvous, deepest on the 

 abdomen. On either side from back of shoulders to heel of hind feet 

 a creamy white stripe broadening on the outer sides of the thighs. 

 The fulvous hairs of the abdomen between shoulder and thigli adjoin- 

 ing this stripe have black bases. Sides of muzzle, chin, cheeks and 

 sides of neck running up behind the ears chalky-white somewhat 

 grizzled, the region below the eyes being darkest. Shoulders pale 

 fulvous white, gradually deepening into the colour of the fore legs. 

 Tail blackish below and grizzled at base, bleaching on the upper 

 surface to a deep brown with a pale tip. 



Skull and Teeth.— Skull and teeth do not in any way differ from 

 those of the related forms. 



