in the Collection of the British Museum. 433 
of limbs white; sides of the body and belly grey. Brazil? 
B.M. 
31. Macrozxus pusillus. 
Seiurus pusillus, Geoff., Desm. Mam. 337; Gray, List Mam. B. M. (part.). 
Macrozus pusillus, Lesson. 
Le petit Guerlinguet, Buffon, H. N. Supp. vii. 261, t. 66. 
Fur soft, dark olive, yellow-grey-washed ; head redder ; hairs 
blackish from the base, with yellow-grey tips; cheeks, chin, 
throat, chest, and belly yellowish grey ; hairs dark lead-coloured, 
with yellow-grey tips; ear-tufts none or very small: tail slen- 
der, cylindrical, black slightly varied with yellow; the hairs of 
the base yellow, with a basal and subterminal black band and a 
yellow tip, those of the tip black, with a yellowish base. 
Hab. Tropical America: B.M. Cayenne (Buffon). 
_ Avery small species : body and head 44 inches long. The front 
of the shoulders and thighs yellower than the rest of the body. 
32. Macroxus Kuhlii. 
Sciurus leucotis, Castelnau, MS. (not Gapper). 
Sciurus Kuhl, Gray. B.M. 
Sc. pusillus, Gray, L. M. B. M. 139 (not Geoff. ?). 
Fur soft, nearly uniform olive, slightly washed with yellowish ; 
chin and underside rather paler and yellower; a white spot 
above the base of each ear; tail blackish, whitish-washed ; hairs 
yellow, with a broad subterminal band and white tip. 
Hab. Brazil (Castelnau). B.M. 
See also :-— : 
Sciurus (Macroxus) Adolphei, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 130. 
South America. 
Sciurus gilvigularis, Wagner, Miinch. Akad. 1850, v. 288. 
Brazil, Rio Madeiro (Wagner). 
Sciurus igniventer, Natterer, Wiegm. Arch. 1842,1. Rio Negro 
(Natterer). 
Sciurus pyrrhonotus, Natterer, Wiegm. Arch. 1842,i. Brazil, 
Borba (Natterer). 
Sciurus variabilis, 1. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1882, t. 4; S. Baird, M. 
N.A. 283. Columbia (I. Geoff.). 
Sciurus stramineus, Eydoux, Zool. de la Bonite, t.9. Peru. 
Sciurus tricolor, Tschudi, Fauna Peru. 156, t. 11 (Wagner). 
North Peru (Tschudi). 
Sciurus aurocapillus, Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 38, of Jamaica, is 
a bird, and should have been called Sezurus. 
