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more orange tint than in S. mttatus, and the orange colour of the under parts does 

 not extend on to the under surface of the tail. 



The upper fur of S. plantani, in its light-coloured stage, is distinguished from 

 that of S. vittatus by its less rufous and more olive tint, and by the greater paucity 

 of the long shining dark-brown hairs which are so numerous in the fur of 

 S. mttatus, also by the slightly larger size of the annuli. 



Another specimen from Sarawak is in the rich, dark stage of the upper fur, 

 in which condition it resembles S. vittatus, but the tail is uniformly and much 

 more finely annulated throughout than in S. vittatus, and wants the rufous tip of 

 unannulated hairs. 



The squirrel referred to by RaflB-CS as much smaller than S. vittatus, and 

 differing from it by the absence of the white stripe on the sides, — in the under parts 

 being of a greyish- white, not fulvous, — and in the tail wanting the fulvous hairs at 

 its point, and having the light and dark colours more distinct and somewhat annu- 

 lated, — is doubtless an example of S. nigrovittatus. 



Tliis is a very common species in almost all the large islands of the Indian 

 Archipelago, but chiefly in Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



SciURUS DEscHiNSCHicus, Gmelin. 



UEcureuil de Gingi, Sonnerat, Voyage aux Indes Orient, vol. ii. 1782^ p. 140. 



Bas Mchhorn aus BeschinscJii, Schreber, Saugeth. vol. iv. 1792, p. 788. 



Sciurus descJiinschicus, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. 1788, p. 151. 



Sciurus gingianus, Shaw, Genl. Zool. vol. ii. pi. i. 1801, p. 147; Kuhl. Beitr. zur Zool. und Anat. 



1820, p. 67. 

 Sciurus alhovittatus, Desm. var. descJiinschicus, Fisclier, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 360 j Gray, Ann. and 



Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, 4tli ser. vol. i. p. 309. 

 Sciurus plantani, Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. vol. iii. 1843, Suppl. p. 197 (in part). 



Dr. Gray has directed attention to Sonnerat's description of this squirrel from 

 Gingi, near Pondicherry. If a laterally lineated squirrel exists in Southern India, 

 it is a fact of considerable interest, as these forms have been found, hitherto, 

 only ill the Malayan peninsula. 



Sciurus prevostii, Desmarest. 



Sciurus prevostii, Desmarest, Mamm. 1822, p. 335 ; Horsfd. Resch. Zool. Java, 1824; Desmoulins, 

 Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vol. vi. 1824, p. 72; Lesson, Man. de Mamm. 1827, p. 236; 

 Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 356; Waterhouse, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 116; Cat. Mamm. 

 As. Soc. Mus. 1863, p. 101; Wagner, Schreber, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1843, p. 195; 

 Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 1843, p. 142 ; Schlegel, Nederland. Tijdschr. vol. i. 1863, p. 24, 

 pi. i. fig. 1. 



Sciurus raffiesii, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. Journ. No. xii. April and July 1828, vol. iv. pi. iv. 

 p. 113; ihid. vol. v. May 1829 to February 1830, p. 141; Mull. & Schleg. Verhandl. 1839-44, 

 p. 93; Gervais, Mag. de Zool. 1842, pi. xxxiii. et Voyage autour du monde (Eyd. and Soul.) 

 Zool. vol. i. 1841, p. 40 ; Waterhouse, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 116 ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 



