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coat varying but little from a deep maroon and black, the former colour being never 

 approached by >S'. macrourus. 



It seems to me that the animal figured by Gray and Hardwicke^ as S. macrourus 

 is a variety of 8. indicus badly drawn and coloured, with the ears disproportionately 

 large for a squirrel. 



In the British Museum, there is a squirrel said to have come from Java, so 

 different from the other squirrels from that island that if the locality is correct it is 

 of great interest, as its affinities are more in the direction of S. indicus and 

 S. macrourus than of S. hicolor. It has its short ears with distinct pencillings pro- 

 jectmg 0'40 inch beyond the tip of the ear, and it has two prominent, black cheek- 

 marks, and the anterior and posterior limbs white for a short way above the wrists 

 and ankles, the anterior half of the face also being whitish. There is a white spot on 

 the occiput, with a pale yellow or rusty-brown area below it. The top of the head is 

 black, with scattered wliite hairs in front, and the area around the eye and before the 

 ear is yellowish-white, but the blackish-brown of the head is prolonged downwards 

 between the eye and the ear, partially dividing into two, one portion stretching 

 downwards below the ear, and the other, smaller and triangular, passing below the 

 eye ; these being akin to the cheek-markings of S. giganteus and S. macrourus ; 

 and it is allied to S. indicus by its coloming, and by an occipital mark which is 

 also visible in S. macrourus, but never occurs in S. giganteus. The ear-tuft is 

 black. The general colour of the upper parts is dark maroon, darkest on the shoulders 

 and upper haK of the fore leg and on the rump, which is sparsely white-grizzled, as 

 is the lower portion of the dark colour of the outside of the thighs, also the lower 

 portion of the sides where the dark colour comes in contact with the white. As 

 in S. indicus and S. macrourus, the radial or lower half of the fore limb is 

 yeUowish-white ; the lower portion of the hind limb above the ankle and the 

 first third of the hind foot are yellowish- white, the fore foot and the two termi- 

 nal thirds of the hind foot being blackish-brown or black. AU the under parts 

 are yellow-white, also the inside of the thighs. The tail is bushy and black, 

 many of the hairs being white-tipped ; its extremity being slightly rufous, and 

 in this also it conforms to S. indicus, which has occasionally a pale rufous tip. 



Inches. 



Length of body 13-00 



„ of tail without hair . . . , . . .15-25 

 „ „ with hair 17*75 



As the specimen is badly stuffed, the measurements are only approximate. 



* SCIURUS PTGERYTHRTJS, Is. Gcoff. St.-Hil. 



Sciumspygerythrus, Is. Geoff. St.-Hil. Mag. de Zool. 1832, CI. i.; Voy. aux Indes Orient, Belanger, 

 Zool. 1834, p. 145, pi. vii. ; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. SuppL vol. iii. 1843, p. 199 (in part) ; 

 Schinz, Syu. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 34; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 827 



' Gray and Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool. vol. ii. (1834), pi. No. 19. 



