50 DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF 



ground squirrel and only found on the mountains ranging 

 between 2000 and 5000-ft. Its habits are similar to those of 

 Sciiints iusi\i^iiis of the low country. I will here give Mr. 

 Oldfield Thomas' description of the species. 



"A striped squirrel of the size and somewhat the general 

 appearance of S. bcrdiu()rci\ Bly., but the muzzle short, as in 

 the ordinary species. Ground colour of body olivaceous green- 

 ish grey, but this colour is only present in purity along the 

 sides of the body and on the face, the nape of the shoulders 

 being suffused with fulvous which narrows and brightens 

 posteriorly into a defined dorsal fulvous line, on each side of 

 which there are, firstly, a black, then a pale yellowish white, 

 and then another black line. The resulting effect is not unlike 

 some of the darker-coloured specimens of S. tristriatiis^ Waterh. 

 (although with the centre line deep fulvous), or of some of the 

 varieties of S. hcrdmorci. Under surface from chin to anus 

 brilliant fulvous, the bases of the hairs whitish on the chest, 

 greyish on the belly. Hands and feet grizzled with orange and 

 black. Tail hairs broadly ringed with bright fulvous and black, 

 the tips of the hairs fulvous. Premolars 'f, at least in 

 the milk-dentition ; incisors deep orange-red above, rather pale 

 below. 



Dimensions of the type (a slightly immature male in 

 skin) :— 



Head and body, 245 millim ; tail imperfect ; hind foot, 42 ; 

 combined length of three upper true molars b'l ; distance from 

 front of ^ to back of incisor 15 '2. 



Hab. Mount Dulit 4000-ft. (C. Hose). (Type of species) 

 Muunt Batu Song (C. Hose). 



SCIURUS INSIGNIS. 

 Sciiirns insignia^ F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. des Mannnif Nov. 

 1 82 I, pi. 223. 



The young of this squirrel is dark brown, with a rather 

 bright rufous tint on the front of the thighs, and, more or less 

 also on their outsides, and on the shoulders. There are three 

 narrow black streaks from the shoulder converging slightly 

 towards the root of the tail. The under parts and the inner sides 

 of the hind legs are dusky and tinted with the previous colour. 

 The feet are dark, unpunctulated brown. The backs of the 

 ears are clad with short hairs. The whiskers are black. The 

 tail is dark brown but some of the hairs have very obscure 

 greyish tips. The fur is very finely punctulated with rich 

 yellow, the tips of the hairs being brown and their basal two- 

 thirds greyish. The hairs cf the tail, when pulled asunder, are 

 also seen to be feebly annulated with yellowish brown and dark 

 brown, the subterminal (basal) ring being of the former colour, 

 and the free end of the hair very broadly blackish brown, 



