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108. Sciuroptertts davisoni Thomas. Davison's Flying- 

 Squirrel. 



O. Thomas (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 74, pi. vi.) described this species 

 from a specimen collected in Malacca by Davison. 



109. Sciuropterus lepidus Horsf. 



In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there is a Squirrel from 

 Selangor, which Mr. A. L. Butler tells me is of this species. 



110. Sciuroptertts genibarbis (Horsf.). 



Cantor (p. 45) records this species from the Malay Peninsula, 

 and gives the following dimensions of a male : — 



Head and body 191 mm. 7g inches. 



Tail 178 „ 7 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Java. 



111. Ratufa bicolor Sparrm. The Large Malay Squirrel. 

 Scivrus bicolor, Cantor, p. 38 ; Blanford, Faun. Ind., Mamm. 



p. 373. 



Cantor says the dark variety is called by the Malays of the 

 Peninsula " Chingkrawah etam," and is very numerous in the 

 forests and hills of Penang and the Malay Peninsula ; the light 

 variety is called " Chingkrawah " or " Chingkrawah puteh," and 

 occurs in Penang. 



O. Thomas (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 75) records twelve specimens from 

 the Malay Peninsula, from the following localities : — two from 

 Salanga, Junkceylon ; one from the Dindiugs ; four from Klang, 

 Selangor; one from Malacca ; one from Jaffaria, Johore; and three 

 from Gunong Pulai, Johore. He says : " With the exception of 

 three or four of the cream-coloured examples so common in this 

 species, all these specimens represent the typical black aud yellow 

 S. bicolor." 



"W. L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 9) records 

 specimens from Perak, Malacca, and Singapore. 



Eidley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 58) says : " Sciurus 

 bicolor Sparr. This very variable Squirrel is, in Pahang, usually of 

 a dirty yellowish-white colour, almost tawny on the back. Seen far 

 up the Tahan River, and at Pulau Tawar.'" Also (Nat. Science, vi. 

 1895, p. 95) he writes: — " S. bicolor is a strictly arboreal squirrel, 

 which lives in the tops of the higher trees in the thick jungles. 

 It is very variable in colour. The commonest form in Singapore 

 is black with a cream-coloured belly. In the Peninsula it is 

 usually entirely cream-coloured. It is remarkably docile, but 

 much less active than the smaller species. "When eating, this 

 species sits transversely on a bough, grasping it with its hind feet, 

 the head and body hanging down on one side and the tail on the 

 other. It eats fruits of different kinds, and also buds and leaves." 



H. J. Kelsall (J. S. B. E. A. S. no. 26, Jan. 1894, p. 16) says :— 

 *' This' squirrel, which is common in Johor, is here of a dirty 



