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and Pegu, or essentially to the dividing range of hills which separate 

 those provinces. The third is emphatically the Martaban Squirrel. I 

 obtained it in the Martaban hills opposite to Moulmein, but never on 

 the Moulmein side of the river ; though Mr. Atkinson procured one 

 lower down towards Amherst. (J. A. S. XXVIII, 275.) On the 

 hills behind Moulmein, it is replaced abundantly by Sc. atrodorsalis, 

 Gray, which, however it may vary, is readily distinguished from all 

 its Burmese congeners by having conspicuously white whiskers. So. 

 hyperythrus, nobis (said to be from Moulmein, but more probably 

 from the hills bordering the Sitang valley), is very like Sc. atrodor- 

 salis, but has black whiskers, the back, sides, and exterior of limbs, 

 quite uniformly coloured, and no trace of the black patch upon the 

 back.* So. Phayrei I found to be the common species of the Mar- 

 taban jungles, as high up as I went, far into the Yunzalin district of 

 Upper Martaban ; and the only other Squirrel which I observed 

 there was Sc. Berdmorei, nobis, both near Martaban station, and far 

 in the interior. This largest of the striped species is a thorough 

 ground Squirrel, which never ascends a tree, so far as I have seen, but 

 on alarm retreats to the under-wood ; its tongue is remarkably long 

 and protrusile. At Rangoon the only species that I observed was 

 Sc. pygerythrus, Is. Geoffroy, which is the ordinaiy Squirrel of 

 Lower Pegu ; but high up the Irawadi, in the Shan hills east of 

 Ava, and again above Ava, Mr. W. T. Blanford met with a peculiar 

 race, Sc. Blaneordii, nobis, n. s., which resembles Sc. Phayrei 

 except in wanting the black stripe along the flank, and in having the 

 entire upper-parts greyer or less fulvescent. The four paws are 

 albescent-fulvous in both races, tending more or less to rufous ; and 

 both have the tails black-tipped, and the cinnamon hue of the lower 

 parts extending as a median stripe along the under surface of the 

 tail. Neither of these, too, has any ruddy colouring on the face and 

 ears, as in Sc. atrodorsalis and Sc. hypekythrtis. From Sc. hi- 

 pirythrtts, Sc. Blaneordii is readily distinguished by its larger 

 size, conspicuously black-tipped tail with pale line underneath, and 

 also by the albescent-fulvous colour of the four paws above. f So. 



* We have specimens of Sc. atrodorsaiis without the black dorsal patch ; 

 but the whiskers are white, and the general colouring, especially that of the tail, 

 readily distinguish them from Sc. hyperythrus. 



t Two additional specimens of Sc. Blanforkii have since been examined, 

 which have been taken to England by Mr. VV. T, Blanford. 



