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Incisors dark yellow above and below ; premolars f ; 

 molars rather smaller and lighter than those of >S'. tennis. 

 Dimensions of specimen, a female, preserved in skin : — 



Head and body 140 millim ; tail without hairs 103, with 

 hairs 136 ; hind foot 32.5 ear, above crown 4-0. 



Hab. Mount Kina Balu (J. Whitehead). Mount Dulit 

 4000-ft. (C. Hose). 



SCIURUS BROOKEI. 



Scinrns hr'jokci\ Thomas, P.Z.S. March, 1892, p. 225-226. 



This pretty little squirrel is found on Mount Dulit be- 

 tween 2000 and 5000-ft. It is also found on Mount Batu Song 

 and other mountains in the Ba-am district above the altitude 

 of 2000-ft. The type was obtained by me in November, 1891, 

 on Mount Dulit. It is about the size of Scinrns lokriali^ Hodgs., 

 or rather smaller ; decidedly larger than S. tcmiis, Horsf. 

 General colour above plain olive grey, grizzled with yellow, 

 but not so finely as in S. tennis. Sides of body and outer and 

 upper surfaces of limbs like the back, without the rufous 

 suiTusion characteristic of S. tennis. Cheeks, anal region, and 

 basal inch of tail below brilliant rufous. Chest and belly grey- 

 ish white, the hairs grey basally, and dirty white terminally. 

 Tail hairs broadly annulated with black and pale yellow. 



Dimensions of type, an adult female in skin : — 



Head and body 205 millim. ; tail, without hairs, 144 ; 

 hind foot 37. 



Skull: basal length (c) 37 ; bregma to nasal tip, 32 ; 

 greatest breadth 25-6 ; nasals, length 13'2 combined breadth 7 ; 

 interorbital breadth 15 ; diastema lo'o ; palate, length 22, 

 b"eadth outside ^\ lO'J, inside lliL t) ; f.'ont of _['! to back of 



This squirrel belongs to a group of oriental species charac- 

 terised by iheir dull grizzled olive-grev colour, unstriped sides, 

 and annulated black and yellowish tails. For ornamentation 

 some of the species have rufous patches on the head, shoulders, 

 hips, or tail, but some are quite without them, and in all they 

 vary much in their development. 



Hab. Mount Dulit (C. Hose). (Type of species) Mount 

 Batu vSong (C. Hose). 



SCIURUS LOWI. 



Scinrns lrmu\ Thomas, Ann. Mag. N.H. (6) ix. p. 253, 1892. 



Head and back a much darker shade than Scinrns temiis^ 

 and with soft yellowish white fur on the belly, varying but little 

 in colour from the chin to the root of tail ; tail much the same 

 colour as the back, but with slightly more yellowish brown at 



