SCIURUS PLANTANI. 



10. SCIURUS ERYTHRJLUS, Pallas. 



Sc. supra ex flavo et fusco mistus, infra ex sanguineo fulvus, auriculis ciliatis, Cauda 

 ex sanguineo fulva. Gmel. 



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Das rothbauchige Eichliorn, Schreh. Sdugth. 

 Ruddy Squirrel, Penn. Quad. II. 143. 



This species is only known by the account of Pallas ; and as this is 

 concise, I shall give it in his own words. 



" Descriptum specimen magnitudine erat Sciuri vulgaris, vel paulo forte majus. 

 Color corporis fere qui in Cavia Aguti observatur, luteo fuscoque mixti pilis; subtus 

 longitudinaliter sanguineo fulvus seu saturatissime rufus. Idem color est caudse 

 tereti-villosEB, et quam fascia superne longitudinalis nigricans legit. Palmee tetradac- 

 tylae, verruca insignis, loco poUicis notatas. Plantae pentadactylee. Auriculae sub- 

 hdixbdiite."— Pallas glir. p. 377. 



Native place, according to Pallas, East India. 



11. SCIURUS BICOLOR, Sparrmann. 



Sc. supra niger, infra fulvus, auriculis acutis imberbibus, palmarum ungue pollicari 



magno rotundato. 

 Sciurus bicolor, Andreas Sparrmann, Gothehorgsha Handlingar. Wetenskap St. I. 



p. 70. 1778. Li7in. Stjst. Ed. Gmel. I. p. 148. Desmar. Encycl. Mammalog. 



p. 336. 

 Javan Squirrel, Penn. Hist. Qiiadr. II. 409, Ed. 3. II. 142. Shaw's Zool 11. p. 130. 

 Das Javanische Eichhorn, Schreh. Sdugth. p. 781. Tab. CCXVI. 



The description of Sparrmann appears to have been made from a young animal : 

 he gives twelve inches to the length of the body, and as much to the tail. The adult 

 is considerably larger : two specimens in the Honourable Company's Museum might 

 be considered as belonging to a distinct species, were the subject not illustrated by 

 the following observation of Sir Stamford Raffles. " A young male," he says, " of the 

 S. bicolor, procured from the Straits of Svmda, had the whole of the tail of the same 



