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The SQUIRREL. Sciurus Europaeus, Linn. S. varius, Briss. 

 Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. t. S. vulgaris cinereus, Fischer. Mus- 

 tek? Calotus, or Chuakhal, Hodgs. Calc. J. N. H. ii. 221, t. 9. 

 J. A. S. B. x. 9J9. M. Calotis, Hodgs. Calc. J. N. H. iv. 287. 



Inhab. Thibet. 



a. A hunter's skin, without skull or feet. 



b. Drawing of Chuakhal, t. 127, copied Calc. Jour. N. H. ii. 221, 

 t.9. 



The LOKRIAH. Sciurus Locria, Hodgs. J. A. S-. B. x. 915. 

 Calc. J. N. H. iv. 293. S. Lokriah, Hodgs. J. A. Soc. Beng. v. 

 1836, 232 (described), 523. S. subflaviventris, McClelland, MSS. 

 Ind. Rev. Sciurus, n. s. Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1834, 98. 



Inhab. Nepal, Central region. 

 a d. Four specimens, bright orange beneath. 

 e. Two specimens, paler orange beneath. 

 /. Drawing, t. 128, copied t. 129, f. 1. 



Olive black and yellow grizzled, beneath greyer, middle of 

 belly bright orange ; tail blackish, white-grizzled, beneath red. 



The specimens were misnamed in the former sending, which 

 has caused a mistake in the List of Mammalia. 



The GKEY-SIDED SQUIRREL. Sciurus Lokroides, Hodgs. J. 

 A. S. B. 1836, 232, described (not Horsf.) Calc. J. N. H. iv. 293. 

 S. locroides, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. x. 915. Squirrel, Hodgs. J. A. 

 S. B. i. 344. 



a d. Four adult specimens, front of the thigh like the back. 

 e g. Three specimens, front and outer side of the thigh orange 



red, back rather darker. 



S. Lokriah, Gray, Cat. Mam. 143. 

 h. A young specimen, without a tail. 

 i. A drawing, t. 129, f. 2, and t. 130. 



Minutely punctured yellowish and black, beneath reddish grey, 

 redder in the middle of the belly and groin ; tail elongate, subcy- 

 lindrical, obscurely black ringed near the end. 



The SHIPI, or CHUPI. Arctomys Bobac, Gmelin, S. N. i. 143. 

 Gray, Cat. Mam. 148. A. Baibak, Pallas, Zool. R. A. i. 155. 

 Arctomys Himalayanus, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. x. 1841,777, t. de- 

 scribed x. 915, xi. 287. A. gigantea, Brandt, MSS. A. eauda- 

 tus, V. Jacq. Voy. Ind. iii. 310, 66, (the Droune). A. Tibetanus, 

 Hodgs. J. A. S. B. 1842, 409. Mus Arctomys, Pallas, Glir. 

 *. 51. 



Inhab. Thibet, common in the Himalayas, and Kachar rarely, 



a. A flat skin, wanting the hind foot. 



b. A flat skin of half-grown specimen, wanting all the feet. 



c. An imperfect skull of adult. 



d. A skull without lower jaw. 



