130 JAVAN SQUIRREL. 



VAR. ? 



Abyssinian Squirrel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 140. 

 Sciurus Abessinicus. lAn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 149. 



AN obscure animal, known only from the de- 

 scription of Thevenot, who says it is thrice the 

 size of a common squirrel, and of a rusty black 

 above, with the belly and fore-feet grey, and the 

 tail a foot and a half long. Thevenot adds, that 

 it was purchased at Moco of an Abyssinian. 



JAVAN SQUIRREL. 



Sciurus Bicolor. S. supra niger, infra fulvus, auriculis acutis 

 imberbibus, palmarum ungue pollicari magno rotundato. Lin. 

 Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 148. 



Blackish Squirrel, fulvous beneath, with pointed beardlefs ears, 

 and large rounded thumb-claw. 



Javan Squirrel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 142. 



THIS also is a large species, measuring twelve 

 inches to the tail, which is of the same length. 

 The whole upper parts of the animal, with the 

 outsides of the limbs, are of a dark or blackish 

 brown, and the whole under parts, from the chin 

 to tie tail, of a bright fulvous or fox-colour: 

 the tail is fox-coloured, with a cast of brown on 

 its upper surface : the ears are short and hairy, 

 but not furnished with long pencil-like hairs at 

 the tips : the fore-feet are similar in structure to 

 those of the Great Squirrel, first described, hav- 



