224 EODENTIA. 



Sciurus macroums, F. Cuv. Diet, des Sc. Nat. vol. xiv. 1819, p. 246 (in part) ; Fiscber, Syn. 



Mamm. 1829, pp. 355-356 (in part). 

 Sciurus purjpureus, Gray, Hand- List Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 136 (in part) ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 868 ; Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855, p. 126. 

 Sciurus malabaricusy Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 32 (in part) ; Jerdon, Mamm. Ind. 



1857, p. 166. 

 Sciurus {Batufa) indicus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 1867, p. 273. 



The characters of the Malabar form, the literature regarding which heads this 

 notice, may be briefly summed up as follows : — 



The upper surface and the sides of the neck, the shoulders and the outside of 

 the fore limbs, the lumbar and sacral regions, the outside of the thighs and the tail, 

 are black, the black of the hind quarters being prolonged forwards along the mesial 

 line towards the black of the shoulders. A large, dark, maroon spot on the vertex 

 separated from the maroon of the nape by a yellowish, inter-aural area, which 

 extends downwards and forwards to the cheeks. A maroon-coloured line passes 

 downwards from the front of the ear, with a yellow area behind it. The sides of 

 the face and muzzle are pale-yellowish, the latter being flesh-coloured. The other 

 portions of the trunk and the lower half of the tibial portion of the hind limb are 

 maroon. The tail is either black or maroon-black, sometimes tipped with yellowish- 

 brown. The whole of the under parts and inside of the limbs, and the hands and 

 feet, are rich yellowish. The ears strongly maroon, and tufted. 



This species occurs on the Malabar Coast, and extends into Central India, and 

 in the southern portion of the former region it appears to be associated with 

 *S'. macrourus. Hodgson records it from the Terai region of the Himalaya. 



SciURiJS MACROURUS, Pennant. 



Sciurus macrourus, Pennant, Ind. Zool. 1769, 1st ed. p. 81, pi. i. ; Syn. Quad. 1771, p. 281; Hist. 



Quad. 3rd ed. 1792, p. 140 j Erxleben, Syst. Reg. An. 1777, p. 400; Zimm. Sp. Zool. Geogr. 



1777, p. 518; Geogr. Gesch. vol. ii. 1780, p. 340; Forster, Indisehe Zool. 1781, p. 11, pi. i.; 



Bodd. Elench. An. 1785, p. 117; Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. 1788, p. ]4S; Selireber, 



Saugeth. vol. iv. 1792, p. 783, pi. 217 (Pennant's figure) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. ii. 1801, 



p. 129, pi. i. ; Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. x. 1817, p. 104 (in part) ; F. Cuv. 



Diet, des Sc. Nat. vol. xiv. 1819, p. 246 (in part) ; Is. Geoff. St.-Hilaire, Diet. Class. d'Hist. 



Nat. vol. vi. 1829, p. 71; Fiseher, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 355 (in part); Gray's Hand-List, 



Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 137; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1847, vol. xvi. p. 869, pi. xxxvi. 



fig. 2; ibid. 1849, vol. xviii. p. 601; ibid. vol. xx. 1851, p. 165; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. 



Mus. 1863, p. 100; Horsfield, Zool. Resch. Journ. 1824; Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co.'s Mus.1851, 



p. 158; Kelaart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 157; Prod. Faun. Zeyl. 1852, p. 49; Jerdon, Mamm. 



Ind. 1867, p. 168; Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 275. 

 ? Sciurus vulgaris, var. ceylonicus, Erxleben, Syst. Beg. An. 1777, p. 416. 

 /Scmm* ceyfomcM*, Erxleben, Syst. Beg. An. 1777, p. 416; Desmoulins, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. 



vol. vi. 1824, p. 71. 

 Sciurus ceilonensis, Bodd. Elench. An. 1785, p. 117; Desmarest, Mamm. 1822, p. 335, pi. Ixxv. 



fig. 4; Lesson, Man. de Zool. 1827, p. 235. 

 Sciurus maximus, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1843, p. 188 (in part). 

 Sciurus bicolor, Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 33 (in part). 



