46 DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OK 



the back with red on the belly. I have obtained several varieties 

 of this pretty squirrel; the most usual is one with greyish black 

 back, greyish white thighs, a broad yellowish white line from 

 the axilla run along the side, and over the outside of the thigh 

 to the heel; this tint is never really lost in any of the varieties, 

 though in some cases it is very faint. 



Length of Dody, 1050 ; tail, not including hair, io'3o 

 inches. 



This squirrel is found all through the low country, and on the 

 mountains to 5,000-ft. 



Hab. Baram River (C. Hose). Lawas (A. Everett). Mount 

 Dulit (C. Hose). 



SCIURUS NOTATUS. 



Sciitnis iiotatus, Buddaert, Elench. Animal, 1785, p. 119. 



This common species, the Plantain Squirrel of Pennant, is 

 represented on the mountains of Borneo by a blue-bellied type, 

 without any trace of red or yellow on the undersides. The 

 mountain specimens are smaller than those of the low country, 

 and the tail has no trace of red hairs, but in every specimen 

 that I have obtained of either se.x, above 2,000-ft., the tail has 

 bars across it. 



In the low country this squirrel frequents the gardens and 

 plantations and is particularly destructive in the cocoanut 

 plantations, spoiling the young cocoanuts when they arc about 

 the size of a hen's egg. 



The native name is " Tupai pinang." 



Hab. Baraiu River (C. Hose). Sarawak (A. Everett). 

 Mount Kina Balu (G. D. Haviland). Limbang River (C. Hose). 

 Mount Dulit, 4,000-ft. (C. Hose). 



SCIURUS EVERETTI. 



Sciiinis n'crctti Thomas. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. 

 1890. 



Fur thick and soft, markedly more so than in the somewhat 

 similar .S'. tenuis, Horsf., found in the same district. Colour uni- 

 form dark grizzled olive, rather darker than in S. tciuns; sides 

 of cheeks, shoulders, and front of hips with a very faint fulvous 

 suflFusion. Under surface dirty greyish white, the hairs every- 

 where slaty grey for two thirds their length, then tipped on the 

 throat and belly with dirty white, and on the chin and breast 

 with dull fulvous. Ears short, rounded, not tufted or empha- 

 sized in colour. Tail unusually short, comparatively short- 

 haired, almost cylindrical, the hairs ringed with dull fulvous 

 and black. Skull small and lightly built, muzzle proportionally 

 very long and narrow. Premolars \ ; molars small and deli- 

 cate, their series on the two sides parallel, little bowed. 



