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from Northern and Central Mdntr/iuria. 501 



3. Mustela alpina, Gebl. 

 ? . Kliingan Mts. 



4. Sciurus vulgaris mantchuricus^ subsp. n. 



2 c?, 3 ?. Kliiiigan. 



Colour in winter pelaf^e very dark blackish grey, with 

 scarcely a trace of rufous (nearest to grey no. 4, liidgway). 

 A certain number of whitish or white-tipped hairs mixed 

 with the grey. Ear-tufts well-developed, black. Tail very 

 bushy, black, its iiifeiior aspect nearly as unifornily dark as 

 the superior, without tinge of rufous. Size very large, the 

 skull conspicuously larger than in any other of the eastern 

 races of S. vulgaris. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 250 mm. ; tail 20o; hind foot 61 ; ear 30. 



Skull : greatest length 57 ; front of j/ to back of w^ 9'6. 



Tijpe. Adult female. Original number 10, Collected 

 11th May, 1908. 



Tlie Khingan squirrel is readily distinguishable from its 

 neare.>t allies, S. v. calotus^ the Altai form, rupestris of 

 Saghalien, and orientis of Hokkaido and Korea, by its 

 markedly larger size, as indicated by its skull. In colour 

 also it is of a much darker grey than any of them. 



5. Eutamias asiaticus, Gm. 

 10 c?, 11 ? . Khingan Mts. 



6. Citellus niongoli'cus ramosug, subsp. n. 



3 J, 2 ? . Chu Chia Tai, Kirin Province. 



4 cJ* , 3 ? . Fan Chia Tun, Kirin Province. 



Both places not far from Chang Chun, the junction of the 

 Kirin branch of the Harbin-Port Arthur railway. 



Colour as in C. m. umbratus, or even slightly darker ; less 

 distinctly speckled. Tail as bushy as in true vwngoUcus^ 

 that of umbratus far less so. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 198 mm. ; tail 68 ; hind foot 37. 



Skull : condyio-basal length 43'5. 



Type. Adult male. Original number 67. Collected 27th 

 July, 1908, at Fan Chia Tun. 



When I described C. vxongolicus umbratus * , from the 



♦ P. Z. S. 1908, p. P70. 

 Atin. dt Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. iv. 36 



