572 MESSRS. AV. E. DE WINTON ASD F. W. STYAN [May 2, 



2. On Chinese Matnraals^ principally from Western Sechuen. 

 By W. E. DE WiNTON, F.Z.S. With Notes on Chinese 

 Squirrels. By ¥. W. Styan, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived March 14, 1899.] 



(Plates XXXI. & XXXU.) 



In ' The Ibis ' of April for this year (1899, p. 289) will be 

 found, in a paper on "Birds from West China," a condensed account 

 of a collecting-trip made by two native collectors employed by 

 Mr, F. W. Styan, F.Z.S. The mammals obtained on this trip have 

 been put into my hands for description ; Mr. Styan having himself 

 written the part on the Squirrels, after looking over the specimens 

 from that country in the Paris Museum. 



The British Museum is much indebted to Mr. Styan for many 

 interesting specimens in different branches of natural history, 

 and I have now to record the gift of a fine series of Chinese 

 Squirrels. 



Other small mammals collected in China in well-known localities, 

 such as have been mentioned in recently published accounts, are not 

 referred to in this paper. 



Western Sechuen has been visited by very few collectors, and 

 the fauna is principally known from collections brought home by 

 Pere David, and more recently by Berezowski ; but it will be seen 

 that these two collectors did not exhaust the store of peculiar 

 local forms. The localities mentioned w ill be more easily traced 

 by referring to Mr. Styan's own paper in ' The Ibis.' 



EaiNOPiTHECus EOXELLAN^. (Plate XXXI.) 



Semnopiihecus roxtllance, M.-Edw. C. B. Acad. Sci. 1870, t. Ixx. 

 p. 341. 



Rliinopitliecus roxellance, M.-Edw. Bech. Mamm. p. 2S3, pis. 36, 

 37 (1874). 



c? , 5 . Tang-liu-pa, N.W. Sechuen. 



The female agrees fairly well with the figures given by M. Milne- 

 Edwards. The chief differences are that the whole forehead is 

 uniformly coloured bright orange ; there are no light patches over 

 the eyes : the ears are covered with cream-coloured hair ; the 

 front of the face beneath the eyes is clothed with the same orange- 

 coloured hair as the rest of the face, so that only the nose and the 

 rings round the eyes are naked ; the iipper lip has a few projecting 

 white hairs. The hands are pale yellow, the dark colour ending 

 on the forearm. 



The male (figured, Plate XXXL), which is a very aged animal, 

 differs principally from the female in the brighter and more rufous 

 tint in the colour of its fur. The face is not so well clothed with 

 fur, the hair beneath the eyes being scant and adpressed and not 



