los NANNOSCIURUS. PROTOXERUS. XERUS. 



Whitehead's Pigmy Squirrel. 



I. Adult — Topotype. P. Kina Balu, Borneo. E. Gerrard & 

 Sons. A. Everett. 



Subfamily II. Sciurinae. 



Genus 97. Protoxerus. 



Protoxerus F. -Major, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, p. 189, pi. viii, figs. 

 7-8. Type Sciurns stangeri Waterhouse. 



198. Protoxerus stangeri (Waterhouse). 



Scinrus stangeri Waterh., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1842, p. 127. 



Sciuriis caniceps Temm., Esquiss. Zool., 1853, p. 127. 



Macroxiis stangeri Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd Ser., xx, 



1867, p. 

 * Schirus nordhoffi Du Chaillu. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i860, 



P- 3(>3- 

 Scuirns eborivoriis Du Chaillu, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i860 



Sciurus snbalbidtis Du Chaillu, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i8fo 



P- 365- 

 Sciunis temminckii Anders., Zool. Exped. W. Yunan, 1878, 



p. 229. (note.) 

 Heliosciurus stangeri Trouess., Cat. Mamm. Viv. quam Foss., 

 Suppl., 1904, p. 301. 

 Stanger's Squirrel. 



1. Adult 9 P. Benito River, W. Africa. E. Gerrard & Sons. 



G. L. Bates. 



2. Adult — P. Batuga, Cameroons, W. Africa. C. W. McCleary. 



Genus 98. Xerus. 



Xerus Hempr. & Ehrenb., Symb. Phys., Mamm., i, 1832, Sig. ee, 

 pi. IX. Type Sciurns (Xerus) brachyotus Hemprich & Ehren- 

 berg. 



Gcosciurns A. Smith, S. Afric. Quart. Jour., 11, No. 2, 1834, p. 128. 



Atlantoxerus F. -Major, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, p. 189, pi. viii, 

 fig. 9, pi. IX, fig. 9. 



*See de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., 11, 1898, pp. 11, 12. 



