158 CATALOGUE. 



211. SCIURUS MACROURUS, Forster. 



Sciurus macrourus, Forster. Pennant's Indian Zoology, 



Second edition, 1790, p. 31, with a figure, pi. 1. Linn. 



Syst. Nat., ed. Gmelin, I. p. 148. Blyth, Journ. As. 



Soc. Beng. XVI. pt. II. p. 869. Gray and Hardw., 



Illustr. Ind. Zool II. pi. XIX. 

 The Long-tailed Squirrel, Pennant's Indian Zoology, second 



edition, p. 81. 



HAB. Ceyion and Malabar, Pennant. Travancore, Elliot. 

 A. Presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



212. SCIURUS VULGARIS, Linn., Fn. Suec. 2, p. 15. 

 Syst. Nat., ed. Gmel I. p. 145 ? 



? Common Squirrel, Penn., Brit. Zool. I. p. 107. 



Sciurus europseus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 139. 



Cat. Hodgs. Collect, p. 23. 

 Mustek ? calotus, Hodgson, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. II. 



p. 221, $c. 

 CHUAKHAL, of the inhabitants of Tibet. 



HAB. Himalaya and Tibet, Hodgson. 



A. A furrier's skin, not perfect. Presented by B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq., who observed this animal in that state only in 

 which it is brought from Tibet as an article of commerce, gives an 

 account of it in the second volume of the Calcutta Journal of Natural 

 History, p. 221, &c. The specimens being all imperfect, he was not 

 able to determine its generic character, and therefore indicates it 

 doubtfully as a species of Mustela (?), M. calotus, Hodgs. Mr. H. states : 

 " Cloaks lined with furs of various kinds are largely imported from the 

 north by the Nipalese merchants, and amongst the less expensive sorts 

 of these furs so employed that called Chudkhdl is perhaps the best 

 and handsomest. I have frequently endeavoured to procure all or any 

 of the animals whose skins are thus employed in commerce and in dress, 

 and lately, through the kindness of the minister of this place, have 

 obtained a very beautifully- cured specimen of the animal called Chudkhdl, 

 which, however, alas ! is stripped of every vestige of bone, and of talons 

 or nails." 



" Mustela ? calotus of a clear slaty blue, freckled vaguely with hoary ; 

 the amply-tufted ears, the spreading limbs, and the tail, blackish ; the 



