SCIURUS PLANTANL 



under parts throughout, and the extremity of, the tail, are gray. This latter organ 

 is cylindrical, somewhat distended in the middle, and then tapering to a point; the 

 transverse bands are irregular. Between the tints of the sides and abdomen, a stripe 

 of reddish brown intervenes, which is continued to the neck. The whiskers consist 

 of black and white hairs intermixed. The ears are rounded above, and without any 

 brush-like appendage. The length of the body and head is nine, and of the tail 

 seven inches. 



Sir Stamford Raffles discovered this species in 1819, in the woods of Singapore. 

 One specimen, from Pulo Panjang, in the Gulf of Siam, is contained in Dr. Finlay son's 

 Collection. This specimen is somewhat smaller than the Sciurus bicolor, to which 

 Sir Stamford compares the size of the Sciurus affinis, as it is observed in Singapore. 



Museum of the East India Company. 



9. SCIURUS TENUIS, Nobis. 



Sc. supra fulvo saturato nigroque tenuissime varius, margine laterali fulvescente, 

 subtus flavicante cinereus, cauda fulva nigro fasciata. 



The entire length of the body and head is five inches and an half, and of 

 the tail five inches. It differs from the affinis in size, and in having generally a 

 darker tint. The covering above is uniformly and deheately variegated with dark 

 tawny and blackish brown ; towards the sides the tint becomes fulvous, with some 

 lustre, but no defined hne or streak is apparent. The sides of the head and neck 

 have the same colour. The under parts of the neck and abdomen, and the extremi- 

 ties interiorly, are pale yellowish gray, with a shght tint of fulvous. The tail above 

 is gray, with obscure black bands, and irregular tawny specks ; it has the same form 

 as in the Sc. affinis, being narrow at the base, broader in the middle, and terminated 

 by a long, attenuated, grayish tuft, which is obscurely banded with black. The 

 separate hairs covering the tail have a band of a fulvous colour at the base, of black 

 in the middle, and of gray at the extremity. 



Native place, Singapore. 



Museum of the East India Company, from Dr. Finlayson's Collection. 



