1907.] MAMMALS KROM COGUNfJ, INUAMUAXE. 293 



witli two i-ings (one iioiir luise and one subterminal) yellowLsh 

 white ; tlie Vjelly orange-red, the hairs unicoloured to their bases. 

 Head from the forehead Vjackwards coloured the same hh the back ; 

 face below the eyes, ciiin and throat orange like the belly. Outer 

 side of lindjs coloureil like the back, but a strong rufous tinge on 

 thighs; inner side orange like the belly. Ta,il coloured like the 

 back but with a strong i-ufous tinge at tlie sides M,nd below ; the 

 individual hairs with two pale rings, each 5 mm. wide, separating 

 three black rings of same width, with a long (10-12 mm.) ferruT 

 ginous tip. 



Skull as in palliatus but decidedly smaller. 



Tlie following are measurements of the type (which scarcely 

 <liffer from those of others of the series). For convenience of 

 comparison corresponding measurements of a normal adult speci- 

 irien of F. palliatus onud'i.ijH Gray from Zululand ai-e added between 

 brackets. 



Head and body 197 (200) mm. ; tail (circ.) 19-5 (218) ; hind foot 

 41 (45); ear 20(18). 



Skull— gr-eatest length 48 (52) mm. ; basilar lengtli 37 (40) ; 

 zygomatic breadth 28 (30); interorbital breadth 13"5 (15); nasals 

 13-7 (15-5); upper molar series 87 (9-5); bull* 10-5 (11). 



Tifpe. Adult female. B,M. no. 6.11.8.63. Original rnnnber 

 1560. Collected 5 July, 1906. 



Thi'ough the courtesy of JJr. Peringuey we have been able to 

 examine a Squirrel from St. Lucia Bay, Zululand (South African 

 Museum, no. 4301), assigned by Mr. W. Sclatei- * to frerei Gray, 

 under the impression that the type of the latter was obtained by 

 Sir Bartle Frere in Natal. But the typical specimen was received 

 by the British Museum in 1873, about which date Sir B. Frere 

 )-etui-ned to England from Zanzibar, and he did not go to South 

 Africa till some years later. The type locality " Zanzibar " given 

 by Gray for his " Macroxus annulatas frerei " is therefoi-e 

 undoubtedly correct. The Zululand specimen, though paler in 

 <-olour, agrees in all essential characters with the present species, 

 to which we have no hesitation in assigning it. The range 

 of sjxjnsus is therefore from Inhambane to Zululand, where it 

 coexists with F. palliatus ornatus Gray, and this fact and its 

 smaller size amply justify us in classing it as a distinct sjiecies. 



" Native name, ' Shintsi.' 



" Extremely common and found everywhere in the forests and 

 thickets, especially near native clearings ; as many as half a 

 dozen can be seen at one time running al>out in the trees. The 

 alarm call is a bird-like chatter. It is taken in vast numbers by 

 the natives, with whom it is an especial delicacy." — C. H. B. G. 



As we have had occasion to refer to the true locality of frerei, 

 we further take this opportunity of recording that, allowing for 

 the fact that it is a young individual, we find on comparison that 

 the type o( frerei agrees quite closely with the specimens assigned 



* Mainm. S. AfV. ii. p. 7 (footnote), 1901. 



