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SCIURUS PLANTANI. 



the head above, and all the upper parts, the thighs, and the biparted line on the 

 cheeks, are black with a cast of deep blue ; the under parts are yellow, of a light tint; 

 the tail is light gray ; the nose flesh-coloured, and the feet black ; between the ears'a 

 white band stretches across the head. Both species agree in having the ears tufted 

 with long black hairs. 



From a drawing prepared in Ceylon for J. G. Loten, Esq. preserved in the 

 Banksian Library. 



16. SCIURUS MAXIMUS, G»?e^. 



Sc. capite colloque supra dorso lateribus fascia transversa genum pedibusque ex 

 rubicundo fuscis, armis femoribus tergo uropygio caudaque prseter apicem 

 nigris, subtus fascia occipitali caudaque apice flavicantibus, genis sordide fulvis. 



Rasoo, of the people who inhabit the Ratufar hills : Dr. Francis Hamilton's MS. 



Le grand Ecureuil de la Cote de Malabar, Sonnerat Voyag. torn. % pag. 139. pl- 87. 

 Bnffon Hist. Nat Suppl Yll. p. 254, pi LXII. 



Sciurus indicus, Erxleh. mamm. p. 420, (1777.) Linn. Sysf. Ed. Gmel. 149. 



Sciurus purpureus, Zimm. Zool. Geogr. quadr. p. 518, (1777.) 



Sciurus bombayus, Bodd. Elen. anim. p. 118, (1785.) 



Sciurus maximus, Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel. p. 149, excluso charactero specifico, (1788.) 

 Desmar. Encycl. 3Iammalog. p. 334. 



Malabar Squirrel, Penn. Hist. Quadr. Ed. 3. II. p. 141. 



Bombay Squirrel, Pe7in. Syn. Quadr. p. 281, Hist. Quadr. II. p. 409. Ed. 3, II. 

 p. 143. Shaw's Zool. II. p. 133. 



Great Squirrel, Shaiu's Zool. II. p. 127. 



Das malabarische Eichhorn, Schreh. Sdugth. p. 'IM. T. CCXVII. B. 



Das Eichhorn von Bombay, Sclireh. Sdugth. p. 786. 



This species, which has been named, by way of distinction, the Great 

 Squirrel, is only equalled by the Sciurus hypoleucos. The first description of it is 

 given by M. Sonnerat, in the second Volume of his Travels, with the name of grand 

 Ecureuil de la cote de Malabar : he also communicated to the celebrated Buffon, a 

 prepared skin of an Indian Squirrel, the description of which, by the Count La 

 Cepede, contained in the Vllth Volume of the Supplement to the Natural History, 

 agrees in all points with this animaL Various specific names have been applied to it 



