472 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCLETY, Vol. XXIII. 



SCIUROPTERUS PHAYKEI PEOBUS, Thos. 



Blyth's Flying Squirrelt 



1891. Sciuropterus sagitta, Blanford, Mammalia, No, 235 {partim), 

 1914. Sciuropterus phayrei probus, Thomas, Journ., B.N.H.S. Vol. XXIII. 

 p. 27. 



S 20, $ 14. Mt. Popa. 

 " Very plentiful on Mt. Popa, at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. Being 

 nocturnal and entirely arboreal and too small to be readily seen even on 

 moonlight nights, and having no loud distinctive call, it is often very 

 difficult to know when Sciuropterus occurs in a district. The present speci- 

 mens were all caught by day inside hollow trees at some distance from the 

 ground, not in dense forest but in partly cleared jungle around cultivation. 

 They probably feed in such places, partly at least, on custard apples, 

 guavas and other cultivated fruits." — G.C.S. 



Vernacular name — Shin-pyan (Burmese). 



Belomys, sp. 

 J 1. Mt. Popa. 



1. Yin, Lower Chindwin. (Collected by G. W. Dawson, I.C.S.) 

 " One specimen was caught on Mt. Popa in the same locality as Sc. pli. 

 probus ; it was probably a straggler from the heavy forest higher up the 

 mountain." — G.C.S. 



Ratufa melanopepla, Mill. 



llie Tevasserim Giant Squirrel. 



1900. Ratufa melanopepla, Miller, Proc. Wash, Ac. Sc, II., p. 71. 



1891. Sciurus bicolor, Blanford, Mammalia, No. 240 {partim). 

 d 4, 5 5. Mt. Popa. 



19 (no skull) Yin, L. Chindwin. (Collected by G. W. Dawson, 

 I.C.S.) 



This squirrel is very like gigantea, i.e., entirely black above and entirely 

 buffy yellow below, but it is easily distinguishable at sight by the fact that 

 gigantea has the upper side of the forearm black, while in melanopiepla 

 the yellow underside extends over the upper for a certain portion of the 

 forearm, between the wrist and the elbow. The present series is very 

 regular and averages considerably larger than typical melanopepla from 

 Trang (just beyond the Tenasserim border). In the National Collection 

 there are however specimens from other parts of Tenasserim which are 

 nearly " or quite " as large as these, so it will be safer to class these as 

 melanopepla until we have representatives from Pegu, &c. It is a surprise 

 to find this species here where one would have rather expected gigantea. 



" Local and not very plentiful on Mt. Popa, only occurring in the heavy 

 evergreen forest near the top of the mountain." — G.O.S. 



Vernacular names — Shin-ngapaw-ani or Shin-i^igyi (Burmese), Mamai 

 (Shan). 



SciXJBXJS PERKTJGINEUS, F. CuV. 



The Burmese bay Squirrel. 



1829. Sciurus ferrugineus, F. Cuvier, Mamm. pi. OOXXXVIII. 



1830, Sciurus keraudrein, Lesson, Cent. Zool. pi. 1. 

 1891. Sciurus ferrugineus, Blanford, Mammalia, No. 242, 



cJ 5, $ 6, Mt, Popa, 

 A squirrel a little more than eight inches long with a tail slightly longer. 

 The whole animal is bay in colour except the feet which are black and the 



