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the same, end of the tail for a varying length, sometimes amounting to 

 one-half or even three-quarters, whitish or white ; lower parts, outer 

 surface of forearm, and a broad band across the forehead in front of 

 the ears, pale buff or whitish ; face in front of the pale band, rufous- 

 brown, varying in tint ; upper surface of feet the same. 



Range. — The forest near the western coast from the neighbourhood 

 of Bombay to North Malabar and Mysore. 



The exact limits of the area inhabited by this race and by S. indicus 

 var. malabaricus, respectively, are not known, but I am informed 

 by Mr. Gr. Vidal that only the Bombay squirrel is found in North 

 Canara. This form is said by Jerdon to range as far south as North 

 Malabar (probably the neighbourhood of Cannanore), and it was obtained 

 by Sir 0. B. St. John, as he informed me, in Mysore. 



2. Scinrus indicus var. dealbatus, subsp. nov. (or Sciurus dealbatus 

 if regarded as a distinct species) — Wroughton's Squirrel. 



General color of upper parts pale rufescent sandy, growing slightly 

 more rufous on the posterior portion of the body and on the outside of 

 the hind limbs, and becoming brown on the outside of the forelimbs 

 and on the basal portion of the tail ; ears bright rufous ; forehead, a 

 band down the back, all the tail except the basal portion and the lower 

 parts sullied white. 



The following measures were taken by Mr. Wroughton in mille- 

 metres ; I have added the equivalent in inches : — ■ 



Basal length of the male skull (from anterior border of foramen magnum 

 to end of premaxillaries) 2*4, extreme length 2'8, zygomatic breadth 

 1*8. The skull of the female slightly smaller. Both skulls are those 

 of adult animals. 



Range. — This sub-species has hitherto only been found in the forest 

 of the Dangs, to the west of Khandesh, by Mr. Wroughton, to whom 

 we are indebted for the discovery. Though I was never in the Dangs, 

 I travelled, about thirty years ago, all over the Bajpipla Hills, north of 



