324 Dr.J.E. Gray’s Synopsis of the African Squirrels 
1. Sciurus eborivorus, which is evidently only a bad bleached spe- 
cimen of S. Stangeri; and, 2. Sciurus minutus, which is a distinct 
species of tree-squirrel. All the specimens in his collection 
were in a bad condition, very much bleached, and injured by 
dirt; so that it is very difficult to compare He with the de- 
scriptions, which were probably taken from the specimens before 
they were so damaged by exposure and bad usage. M. du 
Chaillu did not seem able to identify them with the names, or 
at least he did not do so when requested; so that it was of no 
use for the Museum to purchase his specimens. Indeed it is 
quite clear that M. du Chaillu is not responsible for the distine- 
tion of the species. 
I may cite, as an instance of his want of zoological knowledge 
to qualify him for the writing of the paper that appears under 
his name, that he sent to the British Museum, with the other 
animals, at the commencement of his last travels, the skull of a 
Bush-Antelope or Bush-Goat (which I described, as discovered 
by him, under the name of Cephalophus longiceps, in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society’ as soon as it arrived) ; yet he 
does not mention the animal in his narrative, and says, in the 
résumé of the zoology of the district, that antelopes are not 
found there (!).. In the same manner he sent specimens of two 
kinds of Manis, viz. M. tetradactyla, with a long tail, and M. 
africana with a short one. The occurrence of only one species 
is mentioned in the narrative, showing that he did not know 
that he had collected and sent home two very distinct species. 
The short-tailed species was not discovered by either Dr. Baikie 
or M. du Chaillu ; for it is evidently the short-tailed Manis that 
Illiger named Manis gigantea, from Guinea, more than forty 
years ago, which had been confused as a synonym with Manis 
brachyura of India, and so overlooked. 
Temminck, in his ‘Esquisses Zoologiques sur la cdte de 
Guinée’ (Leyden, 1853), gives a list of the African Squirrels, and 
several descriptions, in his usual general style, of the species 
which he regards as new and therefore gives new names. All 
the names in the list are marked with an asterisk, which, we 
are told, in a former page, indicates the adult specimens in 
the Leyden Museum, then under his direction; but when 
we turn to the notices of them in the following pages, he states 
that he only knows several of the species from the descrip- 
tions of the authors quoted. He places Sciurus congicus, Sc. 
he had discovered sundry new mammalia, and who wrote the paper that 
appeared in the ‘Journal of the Boston Natural History Society,’ seems . 
to be ashamed of his work, and leaves the traveller whom he misled to 
bear the discredit of his carelessness or ignorance. 
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