162 ^Ir. J. L. Bonhote on the Squirrels 



witliout doubt to the specimen which has been chosen as the 

 type of this species ; he was, however, clearly mistaken, for 

 BIyth, in the original description, gives Manipm- as the type- 

 locality, and according to Mr. W. Sclater * the type is at 

 present in Calcutta. 



Sciuriis erythrceus erytJirogaster, Blyth. 



Sciurvs eryihrogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. (1842) p. 970 ; id. op. cit. 



xxiv. (IH/SG) p. 473. 

 Sciurus rufienfer, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. (1847) p. 871, 



In this race, of which there is a fine series in the Museum, 

 one may distinguish two distinct pelagos. 



In its summer pelage the general colour above is light 

 yellowish grey, with an inclination to a warmer and browner 

 tinge on the back, each hair being, as before, dark brown, 

 with three or four annulations, and the general colour being 

 caused by the predominance of these last. Ears yellowish ; 

 outer side of feet and tail as the back, the hairs at the tip of 

 the latter being black to their bases, thus forming a black tip. 

 Underparts as in preceding species. 



In its winter pelage it is somewhat similar, except that the 

 black ends to the hairs of the tail so predominate as to make 

 the tail black, those hairs towards the tip being entirely 

 devoid of annulations. A similar change, though not so 

 complete, has taken place on the back, so that the general 

 colour is of a dark steel-grey, minutely but profusely speckled 

 with fulvous. Underparts as in summer, but, if anything, of 

 a rather darker tint. 

 Hob. Manipur. 



There ia in the Museum a specimen from Assam which 

 certainly agrees with Anderson's original description of 

 Sc. Gordoni^ var. intermedia f ', at tirst sight it closely 

 resembles the present species in its summer pelage, but it 

 possesses, however, the distinctive characters of iSc. castaueo- 

 ventris from China, Sc. casianeoventris Gordoni, Anders., from 

 Burma, being its nearest ally. It may be distinguished from 

 the present species by the ears being similar in colour to the 

 rest of the upper ] arts and by the median grizzled line below. 

 Anderson further states that the hairs of the tail have fulvous 

 ends and that the tail has no distinctive black subapical tip. 

 These last characters, though not very well marked in the 

 British Museum specimen, bring the race into the Sc. casianeo- 

 ventris group. 



• Cat. Mamm. Culc. Mus. p. 17 (1891). 



t Syuonyui of .S'c. yriseojiectus, Blyth (ncc Gray), see later on. 



