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SCIURUS HIPPURUS Is. Geoffroy 



1S32. Sciurus hippurus Is. Geoffroy, Mag. de Zool., CI. r, No. 6, pi. 6 



(Java). 

 1S42. Sciurus rufogaster Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x, 1842, p. 263 



(Malacca). 



Colypcs. — In the Paris Museum of Natural History, two mounted 

 specimens from Java, collected by Diard in 1826 and 1832. 



Mr. GerritS. Miller, Jr., in some notes on types in the Paris Mu- 

 seum in 1904, remarks that three mounted specimens are marked 

 ' ' type. ' ' The third specimen came from Malacca, and was taken by 

 M. Edoux in 1838 (Voyage de la Bonite). As this specimen was col- 

 lected six years after the original description was published, it has 

 evidently been erroneously marked "type." No reference is made 

 to specimens elsewhere than from Java in the original description. 



Color {based on specimens from the Malay Peninsula 1 ). — Back and 

 sides of body, top of neck from behind ears, and upper surface of 

 base of tail, a grizzle of black and raw sienna, the latter color rather 

 in excess and sometimes inclining to tawny on the lower back and 

 base of tail. Top and sides of head and neck, region in front of 

 shoulder, outer surface of forearm, sides of rump, and outer surface 

 of thighs and legs, blackish slate, finely grizzled with white. Feet 

 blackish slate, very slightly specked with a dull whitish color. 

 Underparts and inner sides of fore and hind limbs hazel, slightly 

 brighter than that of Ridgway. 2 Tail generally a dull black, 

 sometimes inclining to brownish black, coarsely grizzled at the 

 base above with the raw sienna of the upper parts, and at the base 

 below slightly grizzled with whitish. 



Skull. — The skull shows no special peculiarities. The portion 

 of the premaxillse appearing on the dorsal surface of skull is mod- 

 erately enlarged. 



Measurements. — Mr. Miller made the following measurements on 

 the specimens in the Paris Museum : Java, male, head and body 

 280 mm., tail 220, hind part, with and without claws, 60, 57 ; Java, 

 female(?), 290-235-65, 61 ; Malacca, female, 300-255-60, 57. For 



1 Mr. Miller noted that the three specimens in the Paris Museum showed no 

 peculiarities, so that specimens from the Malay Peninsula are here regarded as 

 typical Sciurus hippurus. It is very probable, however, that when good series 

 of skins and skulls from Java are compared with specimens from the mainland 

 that constant differences will be found between them, in which case Gray's 

 name, rufogaster, is available for the peninsula form. 



2 Color terms in this paper are taken from Ridgway, Nomenclature of Colors 

 for Naturalists, Boston, 1886. 



