162 Mr. J. L. Bonhote on the Squirrels 
without doubt to the specimen which has been chosen as the 
type of this species; he was, however, clearly mistaken, for 
Blyth, in the original description, gives Manipur as the type- 
locality, and according to Mr. W. Sclater* the type is at 
present in Calcutta. 
Sciurus erythreus erythrogaster, Blyth. 
Sciurus erythrogaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. (1842) p. 970; id. op. ect. 
xxiv. (1856) p. 473. 
Sciurus rufiventer, 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 pelages. 
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. Kars 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. 
Hab, Manipur. 
There is in the Museum a specimen from Assam which 
certainly agrees with Anderson’s original Yescription of 
Sc. Gordont, var. intermedia tT; at first sight it closely 
resembles the present species in its summer pelage, but it 
possesses, however, the distinctive characters of Sc. castaneo- 
ventris from China, Sc. castaneoventris Gordont, 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 parts 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. castaneo- 
ventris group. 
* Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. p. 17 (1891). 
+ Synonym of Se, griseopectus, Blyth (nec Gray), see later on. 
