1864.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW SQUIRREL. 13 
These all three seem to belong to Cuora amboinensis, Gray, Cat. 
Shield Rept. B. M. 41; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 176. 
Dr. Bleeker states that this species is found in Batchian and Boero 
(Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1857, p. 473). 
Dr. Bleeker, in the paper above-cited, has called a species Cistudo 
borneensis, from Borneo and Sintang; but I have not seen any spe- 
cimen so named. 
4. CHELONIA, sp.? 
There are two young specimens of this genus in the collection, 
one named Chelonia dubia, Bleeker, and the other Chelonia poly- 
aspis ; but it is not possible to determine the species from specimens 
in this state: they may be distinct, but I greatly doubt it. 
Dr. Bleeker, in the ‘ Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind.’ 1857, p. 471, 
mentions Sphargis coriacea, Merrem, as found at Pidang, in Sumatra. 
4, Notice or A New Saqurrrew (SciurRUS ORNATUS) FROM 
Nata. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.RS., erc. 
(Plate I.) 
Mr. W. Fosbrooke, who so kindly sent to the Museum the small An- 
telope (Cephalophus bicolor) which is described in the ‘ Proceedings’ 
of this Society for 1862, p. 263, has now given to the Museum the 
skins of a male and female Squirrel, which is called the Pocoluti or 
Tree-Mouse by the Amazulus. The Zulus seemed to consider it a 
very rare animal, and the fact of a Squirrel being found in the dis- 
trict a discovery. 
We have also received a very imperfect skin, in a bad state, of a 
Squirrel which appears to belong to the same species, from Capt. 
Speke, but without any special habitat. 
ScIuRUS ORNATUS. 
Back dark blackish grizzled ; hairs red, with a broad black sub- 
terminal band and a white tip. Head, legs and thighs, underside, 
and tail very bright red-bay ; the hairs of the head, limbs, and belly 
red to the base; the hairs of the tail very vivid and dark red for 
more than half their length; the base, especially of those near the 
lower end of the tail, black, with two broad greyish bands. 
The red colour of the female not quite so bright and dark, and 
the base of the tail grizzled, with shorter red tips to the hairs. 
Hab. Natal (W. Fosbrooke, Esq.). 
This species is about the size of the Common European Squirrel 
(Sciurus vulgaris). 
