50 ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
albino, is of a dull reddish white, marked with three 
very faint stripes of a still lighter hue. Like the indi- 
viduals described by Clusius they were both remarkably 
tame, and similar in their manners to the genuine 
Squirrels. They always ate sitting upright upon their 
haunches, and conveying their food, which was entirely 
vegetable and consisted chiefly of bread, to their mouths 
between their fore paws. They were presented to the 
Society in the summer of 1828, but no particulars were 
given with regard to their origin or previous history. 
The albino variety is still livmg, and forms part of the 
collection in Bruton Street. 
