OF THE BKAVEK AND OP SOME SQUIRRELS. 



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foot the external and internal lobes of the plantar pad are 

 often subdmded, but not always, and never to the same 

 extent as in Gallosciurus ; the inner metatarsal pad is always 

 long and rod-like, but the outer in all the specimens examined 

 is small, spherical, and approximately on a level with the 



Text-fiffure 47. 



A. Right fore foot of RheitJirosciurus macrotis. 



B. „ liind „ „ 



C. „ fore „ „ Protoxerus stangeri. 



D. „ hind „ „ „ ,, 



(These figures drawn without measurements from dried skins.) 



distal end of the inner without overlapping it proximally. 

 The heel is less hairy than in Gallosciurus and Batufa, being 

 sometimes naked in the middle line, sometimes scantily hairy. 

 (Text-fig. 46, 0, D.) 



