18GG.] DR. W. PETERS ON MAMMALS FROM BURMAH. 429 



no. 7, described by Mr. Beavan, with black and white whiskers, but 

 also no. 4, with the whiskers partly yellow-pointed, nos. 5, 10, and 

 no. 1 2, with yellow-ringed whiskers, represent combining forms. The 

 same is to be seen in the different colouring of the tail of the dif- 

 ferent specimens, which varies from olive-yellow to orange and red- 

 orange. 



4. Sciurus phayrki, Blyth, Jouru. As. Soc. 1855. xxiv. p. 476. 



"No. 6. Sciurus, August, Martaban, bank of the Salween, near 

 the junction of Yunzalin River." 



The specimen, a male, belongs without doubt to this beautiful and 

 well-described species*. 



5. Sciurus chrysonotus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. x. p. 920 ; 

 1847, xvi. p. 873 ; 1855, xxiv. p. 474. 



"No. 21, male, no. 23, female, July; no. 22, male, September, 

 Moulmeiu. 



"No. 21. Specimen in flesh, S. chrysotwtus, Blyth; male. 

 Length : tip of nose to insertion of tail 9 inches ; insertion of tail to 

 end of tail 11 inches (total 1 foot 8 inches). For 4| inches the tail 

 is thick and bushy, the remaining 6| being composed of longer, 

 thinner, and altogether fewer hairs, with a conspicuous black tip. 

 General colour fulvous grizzled ; no black mark on back ; greyer on 

 thighs, legs, and belly. Tip of nose and paws glistening white ; 

 whiskers black ; ears small and rounded ; teeth dirty orange-yellow; 

 irides dark brown. The female a little smaller, with tail bushy the 

 whole length, and black-tipped of course. The peculiarity in the tail 

 of the male is probably exceptional. 



" No. 22. This specimen shows a slight patch or two of golden 

 fulvous on back of neck. 



" This species is very domestic, frequents a small grove of Mesua 

 ferrea, Linn., near the house, on the ripe nuts of which it feeds 

 in July ; occasionally descends to the ground to pick up some frag- 

 ments thrown from the house, but never stays there long. Founcf a 

 nest of this species early in July, with one young one in it, in a Ca- 

 thartocarpus, the Cassia florida of Vahl." " 



The specimens sent with the foregoing interesting information 

 leave no doubt about their determination. 



Capt. Beavan also noticed a species of Tupaia about clumps of 

 bamboos in gardens of Moulmein, but has not yet been able to se- 

 cure a specimen. 



* The Zoological Museum at Berlin received a long time ago a red-bellied 

 Squirrel from Tenasserim, together with the Semnopithecus chrysogastcr, Licht. 

 (S. potemiani, Bonap.), which appears to be different from all hitherto described 

 species. It may be called 



Sciurus piceus, n. sp. 



S. -piceus; gula, pectore, ventre artmtmque latere interne- rvfis. 

 Long, ab ap. rostri ad caudrc bas. 070m., cap. 0060m., aur. 0018 m., caud. 

 0-00 m., palm. 0-035 m., plant. 00G2 m. 



This species belongs to the group of S. hippurus, atrodorsalis, erythrogaster, &c. 



