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It is distinguished by its much greyer coloration, caused 

 by the annulations of the hairs being pale buff instead of 

 fulvous or ruddy brown. Feet and limbs grey. Underparts 

 uniform vinous, 



J^ah. Hills near Ningpo. 



Type, B.M. 86. 10. 28. 3. Hills 30 miles from Ningpo, 

 March 1884. Presented by Mr. F. W. Styan. 



Sciurus castaneoventris Gordont, Anders. 



Scinnuo Gordoni, Anders. P. Z. S. 1871 , p. 140 ; Bljth, J. A. S. B. xliv. 

 (1875) extr. no. p. 37. 



This form differs from the typical Sc. castaneoventris by the 

 presence of a median grizzled line running throughout the 

 whole length of the underparts and by tiie vinaceous colour 

 of the same beijig somewhat restricted on the flanks, thus 

 forming two broad stripes. 



Hah. Upper Burma. 



Sciurus castaneoventris griseopectus, Blyth. 



Seiurus griseopectua, Blyth (necGrayl, J. A. S. B. xvi. (1847) p. 873. 

 Sciurus Gorduni, var. intermedia, Auders. Zool, Res. (1879) p. 241. 



This form is represented in the Museum by a single speci- 

 men only. It differs from Sc. Gordoni in the mesial grizzled 

 line not being so broad or so well defined, and in the rufous 

 portion of the underparts being as broad as in the typical 

 Sc. castaneoventris, but darker and richer in colour. 



Hah. Assam. 



My reasons for the inclusion of this form among the 

 Sc. castaneoventris group have already been given, but 

 it may be mentioned that the figure accompanying the 

 original description is inaccurate in two important particulars, 

 namely, ti)e yellow ears and the black tip to the tail. With 

 regard to the former, Blyth in his original description makes 

 no mention of their colour, but he distinctly refers to the 

 fulvous tips to the hairs of the tail. 



Lest my divisions into species and subspecies may appear 

 to some rather arbitrary, it will perhaps make it clearer if I 

 point out that in Upper Burma and Assam we have two 

 forms occurring in the same locality — namely, Sc. Gordoni 

 and Sc. Sladeni in the former, and Sc. erythrceus and Sc. gri- 

 seopectus in the latter j it is therefore unlikely, though from 

 the vagueness of the data not absolutely impossible, that 

 these should all be geographical forms of one species, and 

 this is further borne out, sufficiently to my mind to prove the 



