in the Collection of the British Museum. 278 
as the body, hairs with two or three broad black and yellow 
rings; end of the nose yellowish. 
Hab. Celebes. B.M. 
3. Sciurus leucocephalus. 
Dark blackish grey, varied with white tips to the hairs; 
head, ears, throat, underside of body, outer and inner sides of 
limbs, and underside of the tail white or yellowish white. Tail 
as long as the body and head, with black, largely white-tipped 
hairs; ears fringed with elongate hairs. 
Hab. Asia? B.M. (a male). 
See also Sciurus erythreus, Pallas, not Swinhoe, which is a 
Macroxus. 
4. Sciurus historicus. 
Sciurus syriacus, Verreaux, Cat., not Ehrenb. 
Fur elongate, soft, full, blackish grey, closely and minutely 
punctulated with white ; head, neck, and shoulders with a reddish 
tint ; chin, throat, underside of the body, fore legs, and fore feet 
rufous. Tail as long as the body, blackish, reddish-grey-varied, 
with broad reddish edges and tip, hairs rufous, with a broad 
subterminal black band and reddish tip ; ears with longish rigid 
hairs, forming a fringe and slight pencil. 
Hab. Syria (Verreaux). B.M. 
Differs from Sciurus syriacus of Ehrenberg and Tristram in 
the pencilled ears, the darkness and-length of the fur, the dark 
colour of the shoulders, and the red being confined to the sides 
of the belly and not extending up the sides of the body. 
Ill. Ears with a puff of soft hairs on the outer surface. 
* Tail elongate, longer than the body and head ; large-sized. Ratufa. 
5. Sciurus indicus. 
Sciurus maximus, Schreb. Saugeth. t. 217; Horsf. Zool. Java, t. = Great 
Squirrel, Shaw. 
Se. indicus, Erxl., 1777. 
Sc. bombayus, Bodd.=Bombay Squirrel, Penn., 1785. 
Sc. purpureus, Zimm. 
_ Fur red brown; thighs, loins, rump, and tail black; cheeks 
and occipital band fulvous. 
Hab. India, Malabar. B.M. 
Var. Elphinstonit. 
Se. Elphinstonii, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 103. 
Hab. Dukhbun (Sykes). B.M. 
Varies greatly in the tensity of the colour. 
