1390.] DR. A. B. MEYER ON A NEW SQUIRREL. 59!) 



two are representative species, inhabiting; distinct areas. Bos 

 frontalis may be the wild ox of the Mishmi hills and of the moun- 

 tains extending eastwards from Assam. These hills have scarcely 

 been penetrated by any Europeans and are extremely ditficiilt of 

 access. In some MS. notes, for which lam indebted to Mr. Hume, 

 he gives measurements of the horns on a skull, which was sent to 

 him as that of a wild animal from the South Mishmi hills. The 

 measurements are those, I think, of B. frontalis, the tips of the horns 

 being 37 inches apart. 



There is one more point on which a remark is necessary. The 

 animal described briefly by Mr. Davison ' as the ' Sapio ' of the 

 Malays may be Bos sondaicus. It is not impossible that the white 

 of the ' stockings ' may be rufous in some individuals of either 

 B. yaurus or B. sondaicus (I have seen them deep yellow in a bull 

 B. frontalis)-. The insides of the legs are not unfrequently of a 

 golden brown and may occasionally be chestnut. It seems hardly 

 probable that an additional species besides Bos gaurus and Bos son- 

 daicus remains to be discovered in the Malay Peninsula. 



2. Description of a new Squirrel from the Philippine 

 Islands. By A. B. Meyer, M.D., Director of the Royal 

 Zoological Museum, Dresden, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Keceived August 28, 1890.] 



There were, till quite recently, but few species of Squirrels known 

 from the Philippines, though the great islands in the south of the 

 Indian Archipelago (Celebes and Borneo) had already been shown 

 to possess a large series, and new species are being discovered 

 there nearly every year. Putting aside Borneo, which, being more 

 intimately related to the continent of Asia, is rich in Squirrels, 

 Celebes, together witli its small adjacent islands, is known to possess 

 seven species, viz. : — 



Sciurus mnrinus, M. & Schl., from North Celebes. 

 ,, rubriventer, M. & Schl., from North Celebes. 

 „ leucomiis, M. & Schl., from North Celebes. 

 „ prevosti, Desm., from North Celebes. 



marked on the climbing propensities of Bos frontalis. Bos sondaicus is, as 

 Blyth points out, a more leggy animal than its two allies, and I thiuk B. gaurus 

 has proportionally longer legs than B. frontalis. 



' P. Z. S. 1889, p. 448. It is worthy of notice that Cantor (J. A. S. B. xv. 

 p. 272), in bis Catalogue of the Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula 

 and islands, does not mention Bos sondaicus and gives Saisi utan (wliich means, 

 I believe, simply wild cattle) as the Malay name of Bos gaurus. 



^ Since the above was written, I have seen the bull Gayal in the Society's 

 Gardens, with a distinctly ferruginous tinge on parts of his white 'stockings.' 

 I can well believe that all the lower part of each leg may be stained red in 

 some animals. The coloration is due, Mr. Bartlett tells me. to an exudation, 

 that becomes much more copious in hot weather. 



