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produces isinglass, it has attained an additional interest ; and I have 

 no doubt the manufacture of this article will, when entrusted to ju- 

 dicious hands, form another valuable article of exportation from 

 India." 



Mr. Ogilby called attention to a new species of Squirrel sent from 

 the west coast of South America, by Capt. Belcher, at the same time 

 as the bird- skins noticed by Mr. Vigors. This species more nearly 

 resembles the Coquallin of Buffon (5. variegatus, Gmel.) than any 

 other with which I am acquainted. It is, however, much smaller ; 

 rather less indeed than the common European Squirrel, and differs 

 both in the colours themselves and in their distribution. The whole 

 upper surface of the head and nape, as well as the cheeks of the 

 Coquallin, are intense and uniform black ; the ears and muzzle are 

 pure white ; the black and light- yellowish brown colours of the back 

 are finely intermixed, or as it were granulated, whilst the long hairs 

 of the tail are yellowish red at the roots, glossy black in the middle, 

 and intense red on the terminal portion. In the new species, on the 

 contrary, the head, muzzle, cheeks, and neck, are of the same colour 

 as the back ; the ears are but thinly covered with short hair, and that 

 of a sandy red colour, surrounded by a narrow black border, most 

 conspicuous in front ; the back colours are brindled, or mixed in 

 wavy irregular patches, and the long hairs of the tail are mostly 

 black, terminated by snowy-white tips, which give the whole organ 

 a hoary appearance ; many of these hairs, however, have yellowish 

 gray roots. The limbs and under-surface of the body, in both spe- 

 cies, are red, but in the present species it is of a lighter and more yel- 

 lowish cast. 



For this species Mr. Ogilby proposed the name variegatoides : its 

 chief characters are as follow : 



SciuRus VARIEGATOIDES. Sc. supvcL fulvo nigroquc variegatus ; 

 subtus helvolus ; caudd longd, cylindricd, floccosd, canescente ; au- 

 riculis imberbibus, subrufis, nigro marginatis. 



imc. lin. 

 Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudse basin . . 10 



Cauda 11 



tarsi digitorumque 2 6 



auris 9 



■ ab apice rostri ad basin auris. ... 2 1^ 



A new species of Squirrel, sent by Hugh Cuming, Esq., Corre- 

 sponding Member, from one of the Philippine Islands, was thus cha- 

 racterized by Mr. Waterhouse : 



ScxuRUS Philippinensis. Sc. suprd, intense fuscus, pilis nigri- 

 rufescenti-fiavo annulatis, subtHs cinerescenti-albus, capite et anti- 

 cis pedibus cinerescentibus ; auribus parvulis ,• caudd mediocri. 



unc. lin. 

 Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 6 6 

 caudce 6 3 



