SCIURUS PLANTANL 



Ord. IV^ Rongeurs, Cuvier. 1" Division/ 



Ord. IV. Glires, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. IV. Prensiculantia, Illiger, Fam. 9, Agilia. 



SCIURUS, Linn. Briss. Erxleh. Bodd. Cuv. Geoff. Illig. <§c. 



Char. gen. — Dentium formula ; Primores |-, Molares g. Primores superiores 

 pagina antica Igeves, inferiores admodum compressi acuti. Pro Laniariis 

 diastema. 3Iolares abrupti obducti tritores, supra antico accessorio. 



JRostrum acutum. Labrum fissum. Sacctdi buccales nuUi. Auriculce oblongee, 

 penicillatte vel rotundatas, simplices. 



Cauda elongata villosa, compressiusculo-disticha vel cylindrica. Mammee apertae. 



* Cauda disticha. 



Sciurus supra fulvo fuscoque varius, subtus circulo oculos cingente strigaque 



utrinque laterali fulvis, cauda corpore paululum longiore nigro annulata. 

 Bajing, of tlie Javanese and Malays. 

 Plantane Squirrel, Pennanfs Hist, of Quadr. Second Edition, 1781. II. p. 416. 



n. <2S,\.— Third Ed. \\. p. 151. n. 348. Shaw's Zool 11. 148. 

 Sciurus Plantani, Sven Ingemar I^ung. Kongl. Vetensh. Acad, nya, Handl. XXII. 



1801. p. 99. Widemann's Archiv, III. 2. p. 249- 

 Sciurus notatus, Boddaert Elen. anim. I. p. 119. 

 Sciurus bilineatus, Geoff. Collect, du Mus. Desmar. nouv. Did. d'Hist. nat. torn. 10, 



p. 106. Desmar. Encycl. Method. Mammalog. p. 336. 



The first notice of the animal which has been selected for this article, was 

 communicated to the Public by Mr. Pennant, in the year 1781, in the second edition 

 of his History of Quadrupeds. He applies the name of Plantane Squirrel to it, 



