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. Molars lai'ger than those of R. confucianus. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh : — Head and body 

 155 mm. ; tail 196; hindfoot 32; ear 23- 5. Skull: — Greatest 

 length 39-3 ; condylo-incisive length 35-8; zygomatic breadth 17; 

 nasals 14' 8 ; interorbital breadth 5*2 ; breadth between parietal ridges 

 14-2 ; palatilar length 17'2 ; palatal foramina 7*2 x 3-2 ; upper molar 

 series 6*3. 



Hah. — Upper Burma. Type from Hkampti, Upper Ohindwin. 

 Alt. 500'. Also obtained in the Chin Hills by Mr. Mackenzie. 



TyiJe.—Ada\\t male. B. M. No. 15.5.232. Collected 4th August 

 1914 by G. C. Shortridge. Presented to the National Museum by 

 the Bombay Natural History Society. 



(B) The Squireels of the Funasjbvlus palmarum-tristriatvs 

 GROur IN THE Peninsula. 



By p. C. Wroughton. 



The allied Squirrels of Ceylon were recently dealt with in this 

 Journal (Vol. XXIV, p. 37). Though even now these Squirrels are 

 far from fully i-epresented in our Collections, except from certain 

 localities, it seems to me worth while under present circumstances 

 to place on record the results obtained by the Survey so far as it 

 has gone. 



It seems probable that F. ixLlmarwn is a semi-parasitic form in 

 the dwellings of man, while tristriatus is the wild form of the 

 jungles. The distinction however is by no means strongly marked. 



So far as our material goes tristriatus seems to be limited to the 

 zone of moist heavy forests along the West Coast, from North to 

 South. F. -palmartmi ( with its allies ) is found over the whole 

 Peninsula ( the Himalaj^as only excepted) from the extreme South 

 to as far North as 24 N. Lat, (approximately). North of this it is 

 replaced by F. loennanti, from which it is easily distinguishable by 

 the bright buffy colouring of the underside of the tail, and' by the 

 presence of only three pale dorsal stripes. 



Some years ago (Vol. XVI., p. 406, 1905) I published in this 

 Journal, a paper on F. ijalmarum, L., and established a subspecies. 

 comorinus, from Travancore, after fixing, for reasons given, the 

 type locality o^ -palmarnin as Madras. 



Since then the Museum has received a series of specimens from 

 Madras, from Mr. E. Thurston, which may be taken to represent 

 typical ixdmarum ( from which the subspecies comorinus differs by 

 its darker colour, and especially darker feet). With the new mate- 

 rial made available by the Surve}^, it has been found possible to 

 differentiate three new forms. 



