Sciurus notatus and allied Species, 447 



Skull. — Owing to the skull being very fragmentary, I am 

 unable to give a description. 



Diniension.s (from skin): — Head and body 187 millim. ; 

 tail 150 ; hind foot 37. 



Ildb. Acheen, Sumatra. 



Ti/i'C H.M. 8.3. 8. 1. 2?>:). Collected on 1st February, 1873, 

 by Mr. W. Davison, and preseutcd by Mr. A. (). Hume. 



Sciurus vittatus typicus, Raffles. 



Sciurus vittatus, llalHos, Trans. Liun. Soc. xiii. p. i'-jO ( 1 82i' ) ; Cantor, 



,1. A. S. IJ. XV. ].. L'oO {184(5); Hlvtl), o/>. riV. xvi. p. 872 (1847) ; 



Horsf. Cat. Ind. Mus. p. 1.'52 (18-31) ;"i{lvth, J. A. S. iV xxiv. p. 470 



(IBoti). 

 Sciuruji l>ad(/iu(/, Kerr, TIioiua.s, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 70 ; W. Sclater, 



Cat. Mamm.Calc. Miis. ii. p. 23 (IS'.H). 

 SciuruK tiotatus, Bodd., Tlios. r. Z. S. 18-^0, p. 77 (partial). 

 Sciurus hivittatus, De.sm. Mamm., Supj)!. p. o4-3 (1822). 

 Macrojus vittatus, F. t'uv. Hist. Nat. .Maium. pi. ccxxxiv. (Oct. 1824). 

 Macro.ruM toupai, Lesson, Man. de Zool. p. 238 (1827). 

 Sciurus notatus miiiiatu.->, G. MilK-r, Jr., I'roc. Wash. Acad. Sci. ii. p. 7'J 



( 11K)0). 



(jreneral colour above, iucluding the crown of the head, the 

 outer sides of the limbs, and feet, black, minutely and pro- 

 fusely speckled with fulvous (wood-brown, Rid:^.). The 

 fulvous is everywhere in excess of the darker colour, but more 

 especially so on the head and feet. Eacli hair is greyish at 

 its base, shading into black at its tip, and carries two or three 

 fulvous annulations, which are about equal in breadth to the 

 intervening portions. The cheeks, face, and chin are of a 

 grizzled rufous (ochraceous buff, Ridg.) ; on the muzzle and 

 a rijig round the eye the colour is pure. The underparts and 

 the inner sides of the limbs vary from a deep chestnut to a 

 very jjale orange (ochraceous rufous to orange-butf, Ridg.), 

 individuals being found of all shades within these limits. 

 The light lateral stripe whicii borders the grizzled colour of 

 the back is pale buff (buff, Ridg.), and is succeeded below by 

 a deep black stripe, which is usually rather broader. The 

 breadth varies from 5 millim, to 10 millim., but this variation 

 is probably partly due to the different ways in whicli the 

 skins are made up. The ears are covered with short rutbus 

 hairs, similar in colour to those on the muzzle ; there is no 

 conspicuous light patch behind the ear, although in a few 

 cases a slightly lighter tinge may be obst-rved Ijy j)ulling the 

 ear forward, but in most cases it is entirely absent. The tail 

 on its upper part is similar in colour to the back, but the 

 annulations are rather broader ; below the fulvous so greatly 

 predominates as to almost entirely obscure the darker colour; 



