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Dimensions of the type, the starred measurements taken in the flesh. 



Forearm : — 46mm. 



Head and body 47*, tail 39*, ear 15*, lower leg and hind foot 

 (c. u.), 31.5. 



Skull, greatest length 17 '2, basi-sinual length 13' 1, zygomatic 

 breadth 11*8, interorbital breadth 4 '5, breadth of brain case 8*5, 

 palato-sinual length 7 "8, front of canine to back of m^ 6 '9, front of 

 p' to back of m" 4* 6, breadth across outer corners of m' 7" 3. 



Hah. of type. — Pashok, Darjiling, 3,500', of Mr. Primrose's speci- 

 mens , Teesta Valley Tea Estate, 3,000'. 



T?/j3e.— Adult male B. M. No. 16.3.25.30. Original number 500. 

 Collected 30th July 1915 by N. A. Baptista. Presented to the 

 National Museum by the Bombay Natural History Society. 



No. XXIV. 

 The Mainland Representative of Ratufa m. dandolena. 



By R. C. Wroughton. 



Messrs. Robinson and Kloss in a " Nominal List of the 

 SCIURIDAE, of the Oriental Region, with a list of specinrens 

 in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India " published 

 in the records of the Indian Museum, xv. p. 171 et seq. 1918, 

 revive the name albipes, Blyth, for two specimens of Ratufa, the 

 one from the Nilgiris and the other from the Shevaroy Hills. 

 The recent receipt of six specimens of a Ratufa, collected by Mr. 

 Stoney from " the foot of Hills to the West of Srivilliputtur," 

 has led me to investigate the proposal to revive Blyth's name in 

 this connection. 



Blyth bases his original description on a stuffed skin and skeleton 

 in the Calcutta Medical College, the origin of which was 

 unknown, and which are now, it would seem, no longer available. 

 The description commences by likening the new form to macroura, 

 Pennant, i. e. to macroura dandolena, Thos. and Wrought, (cf. The 

 Giant Squirrels of Ceylon, J. B. N. H. S., xxiv. p. 34, 1915.) and 

 goes on to say that it is " of an uniform dull brown colour above 

 and on the outside of the limbs down to the feet " and further 

 " Paws whitish with black hairs intermixed upon the toes " and 

 finally goes on to say " However the latter {i. e. ' macroura' or 

 dandolena) may vary the forelimbs from the elbow are invariably 

 white, and a corresponding portion of the hind limbs. ... I 

 take that now described to be a particular race, equivalent to 

 many others that are named ; but the habitat remains to be 

 ascertained." 



