SCIURUS PLANTANI. 



3. SCIURUS ALBOVITTATUS, Desmar. 



Sc. supra testaceo rufescens striga iitrinque lateral! alba, subtus albus, Cauda basi 

 cylindrica apice disticha nigro alboque varia, unguibus longis compressis parum 

 arcuatis. 



M. Desmarest has given the character, accompanied by a description, 

 from specimens brought from the Cape of Good Hope, by M. Delalande. He 

 considers as a variety, the Squirrel which was found by Sonnerat, in the vicinity of 

 Gingi, near Pondichery ; and which was distinguished, in the systematic Catalogues, 

 by the name of 



Ecureuil de Gingi, Sonn. Voy. 2. p. 140, pi. 89. 

 Sciurus dschinschicus, Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel. \. p 151. 

 Sciurus Ginginianus, Shaw's Zool. II. p. 147. 

 Gingi Squirrel, Pennant's Hist, of Quadr. IT. j9. 141. 



4. SCIURUS BIVITTATUS, Raffies, Desmar. 



Sc. supra nigrescente fulvoque varius, subtus clare rufo nitens, lateribus utrinque 

 strigis duabus contiguis superiore alba inferiore nigra, cauda cylindrica flavo 

 variegata apice rufa. 



Tupai, of the Malays in Sumatra. 



Sciurus vittatus. Sir T. S. Baffles's Cat. of a Zool. Col. made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 

 Soc. XIII. p. 259. 



Sciurus bivittatus, Desmar. Encycl. MetJiod. Mammalog. p. 543. Suppl. 



Ecureuil toupaye, Fred. Cuv. Mamm. Lithogr. 33" livraison. 



The first account of this species Avas given by Sir Stamford Raffles, in 

 his description of a Zoological Collection made in Sumatra. The figure of JNl. Fred. 

 Cuvier, in the above cited work, affords a good representation of this animal, from 

 a drawing made on the same Island. Dr. Finlayson found it in Pulo-Penang 

 and in Malacca. It is therefore pretty generally distributed through the Indian 

 Archipelago. 



Museum of the East India Company. 



