578 ON CHINESE MAMMALS. [May 2, 



I once entered a hillside hollow, one side of which was a rocky 

 precipice about 50 ft. high. On the ledges of this a score or two 

 of Squirrels were collected, and many others were in some small 

 firs in the centre of the hollow ; there appeared to be a large 

 colony of them. 



6. SciURUs STXANi Thos. 



? Macroxus chiaeasis, Grray, Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 3, xx. 1867, 

 p. 282. 



Macroxus griseopectus, Gray, loc. cit. (nee Blyth). 



Sciurun sti/ani, Thomas, Ann. Mag. IN". H. ser. 6, xiii. 1894, 

 p. 363. 



I think there is little doubt that these names all refer to one 

 species. Some years ago I pointed out to Mr. Thomas that these 

 pale-yellow bellied Squirrels {S. griseopectus of Grray) were distinct 

 from S. castaneoventris, to which species they were assigned in the 

 Museum. Finding the former name was preoccupied, Mr. Thomas 

 renamed the species after me ; but an examination of the old faded 

 types of Gray's /S^. chinensis leads me to think that this form had no 

 need of a new name. The skulls, however, have not been removed 

 from the types of this latter form, so there is just a possibility that 

 there are two species, for one of which we do not know the locality. 



Its range appears to be the Tangtse valley from Kin Kiang 

 (Kiangsi) downwards (possibly found higher up the valley, but 

 I have not met with it), spreading over the delta, where it is very 

 common on the flat country between Shanghai and Hangchovv. 

 It is mostly confined to the plains, but is found occasionally on 

 the low foot-hills. 



7. SCIUBUS SWINHOEI M.-Edw. 



S. maccleUandii var. swlnhoei, M.-Edw. Eech. Mamm. p. 308 

 (1868). 



N-W. Sechuen, Chinteh, Chekiang, Fokien. 



It will bo noticed that this species ranges from the extreme 

 west of China to the coast, and is found at altitudes ranging from 

 500 ft. to 5000 ft. and probably much higher. A series of about 

 50 skins has not enabled me to find any constant characteristics 

 by which subspecies can be clearly separated. I have not come 

 across the far brighter and handsomely striped S. rodolphi (so 

 labelled in the British Museum) in the districts in which my 

 collections have been made. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Platk XXXI. 

 RJdnoplthecus roxellaiuE (male), p. 572. 



Plate XXXII. 

 LeipuH sechuenensis, p. 576. 



