in the Collection of the British Museum. 285 
See Sciurus pygerythrus, 1. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1832, with 
underside of body and vent and the base of the tail red. It 
may be the same as the former, if the second account of the 
outer side of the limbs is a slip of the pen for the inner side. 
*** Tail short, only as long as the body, reddish, 
35. Macroxus syriacus. 
Sciurus syriacus, Ehrenb. & Hemp. S. P. t. 8; Tristram, P.Z.S. 
Se. russata, Wagner, fide Verreaux: Schreb. S. iu. 155. 
Fur pale iron-grey (black, very closely varied with white) ; 
sides of the head and neck, the shoulders, fore legs, sides of the 
body, front edge of the thighs, and the fore feet red; chin, 
throat, chest, belly,and inner side of the limhs pale reddish yellow; 
tail rufous, slightly grey-varied, with a greyish edge; hairs ru- 
fous, with a more or less wide subterminal black band, and grey 
tips. 
Hab. Syria, Lebanon, under the cedars (Tristram): B.M. 
Brussa (Verreaux): B.M. 
Var. pallescens. Paler iron-grey; sides of head, shoulders, 
fore legs, and the fore feet pale yellowish ; chin and underside 
of body and inner side of limbs white. 
Sciurus syriacus, Verreaux. 
Hab. Asiatic Turkey (‘‘ Asie Turque,” Verreaux). 
This animal, according to Ehrenberg and Hemprich, changes 
its colour according to the season, being ashy in summer and 
foxy in winter. The animal, by the shortness of its tail and in 
general appearance, much resembles a Spermophilus; but the 
skull has the broad teeth and the high erect zygomatic arch of 
the squirrel. The skull is also without the first upper grinder. 
They are tree-squirrels, and abundant in the forests of Brussa 
and on the cedars of Lebanon. 
e. Fur uniform red brown, or red punctulated with black and white. 
Tail elongate, longer than the body and head, rather slender, 
red. Middle size. Erythrosciurus. : 
36. Macroxus ferrugineus. 
Sciurus ferrugineus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith.; Blyth, 1847, 1862. 
Se. splendidus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 137. 
Sc. ruberrimus, Blyth, M. Z. Soe. 
Fur uniform, red bay, varying from dark chestnut to yellowish, 
sometimes paler on the sides and beneath. 
Hab. Cambogia (Mouhot): B.M. Arakan and Pegu (Blyth). 
