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Skull, greatest length 14; median length 11-9; condyle to front 

 of canine 1 3- 7 ; palato-sinnal length 5'4; fi'ont of canine to back 

 of m'' 5-6 ; front of p* to back of m^ 3-7. 



liab. — Kathiawar and Cutch. Type fro^ Junagadh, Kathiawar. 

 Alt. 400'. 



T^/pe.— Adult female. B. M. No. 13. 8. 8. 32. Original num- 

 ber 2004. Collected 24th November 1912 by 0. A. Ornmp. 

 Presented by the Bombay Natural History Society. 



The relations to each other of the larger and smaller forms in the 

 intermediate area will need further investigation, but in the mean- 

 time the extreme north-western race may conveniently have a 

 special name. 



B. — The Giant Squirrels of Ceylon. 



BY 



Oldfield Thomas and Eobert C. Wroughton. 



(^Published hy fjemnission of the Trustees of the British Museuon.) 



Among the collections made for the Survey by Major Mayor in 

 Ceylon, there occur three forms of Giant Squirrel (Baiufa) and in 

 trying to assign to them their proper names we find that previous 

 authors have fallen into considerable confusion as to the identifica- 

 tion of the different forms described, and their relations to each 

 other. This has been largely due to the fact that the earliest 

 described species has hitherto been practically unrepresented in 

 the National Museum, and efforts to identify it with those in that 

 collection have not unnaturally resulted in error. 



The forms we now know to occur are the three following : — 

 A. — General colour above black, below yellowish, a line along 

 the junction of the two colours grizzled grey. Tail- 

 hairs black with white tips. 

 B. — Like A., but without anjr grizzling along the demarca- 

 tional line and the tail-hairs wholly black. 

 (In both these forms the general black colour may bleach to 

 Tusty brown.) 



0. — General colour grizzled grey, only appearing black on the 

 forehead and shoulders. Tail profusely washed with 

 grey. 

 Taking in succession the names which have been applied to these 

 animals, we have — 



macrourus, Pennant., Ind. Zool., I., pi. 1. 1769. 



The figure shows a black animal with a grey tail, and on account 



of this greyness the name has been commonly assigned to C, the 



most common of the three species, and with a greyish tail, though 



also with a grey body. Now however that we know of A., we are 



