Tt Stee eee 
he 
in the Collection of the British Museum. 331 
with a longitudinal white streak along each side; cheeks with 
two pale streaks; chin, sides of neck, throat, underside of body, 
and inner side of legs pale grey: tail obscurely annulated; hairs 
yellowish, with a broad subterminal black band. 
Hab. Congo (Tuckey ; Kuhl, type, B.M.). 
Very like Se. pyrrhopus ; but the dorsal streaks are higher up 
the sides, the shoulders and thighs are grey, like the rest of the 
fur, the tail much more distinctly ringed, and the face has pale 
streaks. The specimen is not half the size of Sc. poensis; and 
it has no appearance of youth. A half-grown specimen of the 
latter species in the Museum has the shoulders, thighs, and 
sides as red as the adult. It is well figured by Peters, but 
rather paler than the Museum specimen. 
See also Sciurus leucostigma, Temm. Esq. 133, from Guinea. 
See Sciurus superciliaris, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. iii. 212. 
Giebel refers it to Sc. annulatus ! 
d. The shoulders and fore part of the sides with a short pale 
; streak. 
18. Macroxus erythrogenys. 
Sciurus erythrogenys, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 129; Fraser, Z. T. t. 26. 
Sc. leucogenys, Waterh. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 203. 
Fur blackish, minutely punctulated with white or yellow, 
rather paler on the sides; sides of head reddish; chin, throat, 
chest, belly, and inner side of the limbs white: tail black, washed 
with grey, end black ; hairs black, yellowish at the base, with a 
short grey tip. Young and adult are exactly alike. 
Hab. Fernando Po. B.M., Mr. Waterhouse’s type. 
e. The back with two pale streaks on each side ; sides brown 
beneath the outer stripes. 
14. Macroxus getulus. 
Sciurus getulus, Linn. 8. N. i. 87; Gervais, Mag. Zool. 1842, p. 4. 
?Xerus getulus, Temm. 
Barbarian Squirrel, Edw. Birds, iv. t. 195. 
L’ Ecureuil barbaresque, Buffon, H. N. x. 141 (copied Schreb. t. 221). 
Hab. Mogador, Morocco (M. Delaporte). Mus. Paris. 
This is a species that I have not seen in any English collec- 
tion. The animal sent by Mr. Drummond-Hay from Morocco 
as the Ground-Squirrel is Xerus trivittatus. It is to be observed 
that Temminck refers Sc. getulus to the genus Xerus; so that 
he probably called X. ¢rivittatus Sc. getulus; but M. Gervais, 
who described a soft-furred squirrel from Morocco, which is 
the one described by Edwards and Buffon as Sciwrus getulus, 
also refers it to the genus Xerus ! 
