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Tamiops was also obtained to the West of the river, but not at 

 any riverside station — only farther back among the hills. 



Ratufa gigantea, McCl. 



Seven from Hkamti, both East and West banks, and one from 

 Maungkan, East bank. 



Just at Hkamti, comparatively near the source, the same form is 

 found on both banks of the Ohindwin, but lower down, as with 

 other squirrels, the river makes a sharp dividing line between 

 different species and siibspecies. On the East bank B. gigantea does 

 not range below Maungkan, but on the West at Tatkon opposite 

 Kindat, it is represented by a special subspecies. 



Ratufa gigantea lutrina, subsp. n. 



Essentially like true gigantea, but paler in both phases of the 

 pelage. Unworn fresh fur chocolate-brown, or otter-colour, instead 

 of black. Worn pelage bleaching to pale brown, or white3^-brown, 

 commonly near "tawny-olive," much paler than the correspond- 

 ing pelage of true gigantea. Tail with the hairs of its tip much 

 lighter than the rest, often nearly white ; the tail-end of gigantea is 

 quite concolorous with the rest. 



Dimensions of the type: — Head and body, 397 mm.; tail, 520 ; 

 hindfoot, 84; ear, 32. 



Skull :— Length, 77. 



Habitat. — Lower parts of Upper ChindAvin, on West bank. Type 

 from Tatkon, opposite Kindat. Alt. 250'. 



Type. — Adult female. B. M. No. 15. 5. 5. 62. Original number 

 5622. Collected 5th July 1914. Five specimens from Tatkon, one 

 from Sadwin, and three native skins from the Kabaw Valley, 

 300'. 



We have as yet no knowledge of what Ratufa occurs in Manipur, 

 but it will very probably be this subspecies, which is characterized 

 b}^ its paler colour and light tail-tip. Nor is any member of the 

 genus found on the West bank lower down the Ohindwin than 

 this. 



Ratufa fellii, sp. n. 



Similar to R. plioeopepla in. general characters, that is to say in 

 the arrangement and distribution of the dark upper and buffy lower 

 colour, including the wash of buffy half across the forearms, but 

 while the head and limbs are black above as in that species, the 

 middle of the body, from the withers to the rump, is greyish brown 

 (between natal-brown and bnffy-brown) in fresh pelage. The old 

 pelage, which is present on the posterior back of every adult speci- 

 men, is dirty- whitish or straw colour, contrasting strikingly with 

 the dark-brown or black of the foreback, and quite different from the 



