578 ON CHiJTESE MAMMALS. [May 2, 



I once entered a hillside hollow, one side of which was a rocky 

 precipice about 50 ft. high. On the ledges of this a score or two 

 of Squirrels were collected, and many others were in some small 

 firs in the centre of the hollow ; there appeared to be a large 

 colony of them. 



6. SciURUS STYANi Thos. 



'i Macroxas chuieiisis. Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. '<i, xx. 1867, 

 p. 282. 



Macro.vus griseoMctiis, Gray, loc. cit. (nee Blyth). 



Sciurus styaai, Thomas, Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 6, xiii. 18i)4, 

 p. 363. 



I think there is little doubt that these names all refer to one 

 species. Some 3-ears ago I pointed out to Mr. Thomas that these 

 pale-yellow beUied Squirrels (aS. griseopectus of Gray) were distinct 

 from S. castaneoventrts, to which species they were assigned in the 

 Museum. Tiuding the former name was preoccupied, Mr. Thomas 

 renamed the species after me ; but an examination of the old faded 

 types of Gray's S. chimnsis leads me to think that this form had no 

 need of a new name. The skulls, however, have not been removed 

 from the types of this latter form, so there is just a possibility that 

 there are two species, for one of which we do not know the locality. 



Its range appears to be the Tangtse valley from Kiu Kiang 

 (Kiangsi) downwards (possibly found higher up the valley, but 

 I have not met with it), spreading over the delta, where it is very 

 common on the flat country between Shanghai and Hangchow. 

 It is mostly confined to the plains, but is found occasioually on 

 the low foot-hills. 



7. SCIUEUS SWIXHOEI M.-Edw. 



S. maccleliandii var. swinhoei, M.-Edw. llech. Mamm. p. 308 

 (1^68). 



N.W. Sechuen, Chinteh, Chekiang, Fokien. 



It will be noticed that this species ranges from the extreme 

 west of China to the coast, and is found at altitudes ranging from 

 500 ft, to 5000 ft. and probably much higher. A series of about 

 50 skins has not enabled me to find any constant characteristics 

 by which subspecies can be clearly separated. I have not come 

 across the far brighter and handsomely striped -S. rodolphi (so 

 labelled in the British Museum) in the districts in which my 

 collections have been made. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XXXI. 

 Bhinopithecus roxellunce (male), p. 572. 



Plate XXXIL 

 Lepus sechuenensis, p. 576. 



