Sciurus notatus and allied Species. 445 
Scturus nigrovittatus typicus. Java, Sumatra, and Malay 
Peninsula. 
— orestes ..' ... “.. Borneo. 
Kaju Ara Island or Saddle 
— —-Klossti. . . . 
Island, Tambelan Group. 
Key to the Species. 
A. Underparts not blue or grey. 
a, Underparts yellow (butf-yellow, Ride.). 
a‘. Dark stripe narrow (about 6 mm.) and 
S. notatus typicus, 
GLITZ CU aster Aen eink) SRI ee are 
b'. Dark stripe broad (about 15mm.) and black, 
but suffused with white hairs .......... S, 2, albescens, 
b, Underparts red or fulvous (orange-bull, Ridg.), 
(rs, FROG MELD tO TAME Sot toy bales 0:5 aces S. vittatus typicus. 
6+. "No red tip to taili{’ 723... Teva ey teeoek Sag S. v, dulitensis. 
iB: Papua pes blue. 
aay and sides of face ochraceous. [cus. 
. Light stripe lighter than cheeks ........ S. nigrovittatus typi- 
i. Light stripe of same colour as cheeks Sn. Klossit, 
6. Chin and sides of face pale fulvous.......... S. x. orestes, 
Sciurus notatus typicus, Bodd. 
Plantane Squirrel, Penn. Hist. Quad. Ist ed. ii, p. 416 (1781), 2nd ed. 
ii. p. 151 (1792). 
Sciurus notatus, Bodd. Elench, Anim. p. 119 (1785), 
Serurus badging, Kerr, An. King. p. 262 (1792). 
Sciurus plantani, S.J, Liung, Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. vol, xxii. 
p. 99, pl. i. (1801); Horsf. Zool. Res. Java (1824). 
Scrurus gingianus, § Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol, ii. pl. i. p. 147 (1801). 
Sciurus bilineatus, Desm, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. x. p. 106 (1817). 
General colour of the upper parts, including the top of the 
head and outer sides of the limbs and feet, dark grey, 
minutely punctuated with pale buff, each hair having two 
or more pale buff annulations. ‘The cheeks and face are pale 
yellowish buff (buff-yellow, Ridg.) {; the underparts and 
inner sides of the limbs being of a precisely similar colour. 
Along either side of the body, between the fore and hind 
limbs, runs a narrow line of pale buff, succeeded below by a 
narrow grizzled stripe similar in colour to the upper parts. 
The ears are covered with short hair of the same colour 
as the cheeks, and immediately behind them is a small patch 
* Two other races, described by Mr. G. Miller, Jun., under the names 
S. anambensis and S, Abbotti, would come under this heading ; but without 
specimens Tam unable to distinguish them further, A “description is 
given in the text. 
t+ Another race, 8. tenwirostris, also described by Mr. Miller, should he 
included under this heading. 
{ Ridgway, ‘ Nomenclature of Colours’: Boston, 1886, 
