1900.] MAMMALS Or SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 355 



yellowish-white colour, somewhat darker on the back. Specimens 

 were obtained at Kuala Sembrong and Batu Pahat." 



The Museum at Taipiug coutains a specimen of the dark race 

 from Maxwell's Hill, Larut, Perak. Mr. L. Wray tells me this 

 squirrel is known as " The Jeelrang Squirrel," " Chingkravvah 

 Itam," or " Tupai Nanding." 



The Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one dark specimen 

 from Selangor. 



The Raffles Museum contains a specimen from Singapore. 



In the Siamese Museum we had a specimen from Phrabat. 



I saw the dark race of this species in some high jungle-trees 

 near the waterfall, Botanical Gardens, Penang, 1st January, 1896. 

 Also on the 28th March, 1897, a little downstream of Paknam Kabin 

 on the Bangpakong River, Siam, I saw one in a very tall tree : it 

 was black above, pale fawn-colour beneath, had a very big, bushy 

 black tail, and, so far as we could make out with field-glasses, it 

 had tufted ears. 



Distribution. Nipal, Sikhim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur, Burma, 

 Siam, Malay Peninsula (Junkceylon, Penang, Perak, Dindings, 

 Selangor, Malacca, Pahang, Johore, Singapore), Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo ; Celebes ? 



112. Scittbtjs einlaysoni Horsf. Finlayson's Squirrel. 



Sciurus ferrugineus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 375. 



" Kra rawk khow " (White Squirrel) of the Siamese. 



Horsfield (Cat. Mamm. Mus. East India Co. 1851, p. 154) 

 records a specimen from Siam collected by Dr. G. Finlayson. 



This species is very numerous in parts of Siam ; the Siamese 

 Museum contained five specimens — a red one from Bangkok, 

 October 1893 ; a red one from Chantaboon, July 1896 ; and three 

 white ones without recorded localities. In March 1897 I saw six 

 of the white race in various places on the Bangpakong River 

 between Tahkamen and Kabin, they were all in trees, usually in 

 the jungle. In January 1898 I saw one of the red race in trees in 

 a mangrove swamp near the mouth of the Chantaboon River. In 

 February 1898 we saw very many near Ayuthia, especially in a 

 grove of trees a few miles north of the town ; I did not see any 

 on the ground, but always in the trees or clumps of tall bamboo. 

 They were all engaged in love making, males were more numerous 

 than females ; they made a good deal of noise, a sort of clucking, 

 rather like the cry of some species of woodpecker. The females 

 have two pairs of mammae. These Ayuthia specimens varied 

 greatly in colour (v. O. Thomas, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 245) ; in all the 

 iris was dark brown, and the bare skin on hands and feet black. 

 In August 1898 I saw one specimen on Klong Morn, a few miles 

 from Bangkok. On the 28th August 1897, at Kosichang, I saw 

 in the woods on Flagstaff Hill about 12 or 15 white squirrels, 

 probably of this species, but apparently smaller and more buff 

 (less pure white) than those I saw on the Bangpakong in March. 

 On the 27th February, 1898, on revisiting the same woods, I saw 



