in the Collection of the British Museum. 283 
c. Chest and belly dark red brown. Middle-size Squirrels. 
+ Tail black, rarely red. 
27. Macrozus Pluto. 
Fur, feet, and tail deep black; chest, belly, and a narrow 
well-defined line down the inner side of the legs bright red bay. 
Hab. Borneo, Sarawak. B.M. 
_ See S. erythromelas, Schlegel, 7. c. t. 2. f. 2, but with the 
edges of the fore legs and the hind feet red; and S. piceus, 
Peters, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 429. 
28. Macroxus rufogaster. 
Sciurus rufogaster, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842. 
Fur minutely punctulated ; back yellow-washed ; head, shoul- 
ders, and thighs iron-grey (grizzled). 
Hab. Malacca. B.M.., type. 
Var. Borneensis. 
S. hippuris, 1. Geoff. Mag. Zool. t. 
Nape, back, rump, and hinder edge of fore legs bright red 
chestnut, like underside. 
Hab. Borneo (Blyth). B.M. 
29. Macroxus punctatissimus. 
Fur soft, black, very minutely and closely punctulated with 
grey; tail and feet black; throat, chest, belly, and inner side of 
limbs bright red chestnut. 
Hab. India. B.M. 
30. Macroxus erythrogaster. 
Sciurus erythrogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. 972, xxiv. 473. 
Se. erythreus, Gray, List M. B. M.; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 357 (not 
- Pallas). 
Fur dark olive, minutely punctulated with yellow; back yel- 
lowish-washed ; throat, chest, belly, and inner side of limbs red 
chestnut ; tail like back ; hairs indistinctly pale-ringed. 
Hab. Bhotan. B.M., type. 
Var. 1. Tail yellow-washed. Formosa (Swinhoe, type). B.M. 
Var. 2. Tail, hinder half, red bay, like belly. Assam. B.M. 
See also Sciwrus rubriventer, Miiller, Verh. 10. 
tt Tail dark, indistinctly white-ringed ; end blackish. 
31. Macroxus castaneoventris. 
Sciurus castaneoventris, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842. 
Fur dark olive grey, minutely punctulated; chest, throat, 
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