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Mus. Collector {1867). 

 J. Anderson. 



F. Bonynge (1845), A S.B. 



W. Theobald (1852), A.S.B. 

 J. Anderson (1868). 



Sciuropterus fuscocapillus. 



Sciuropterus fuscocapillus, Blyth J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 867 (1847) ; id. J. A. S. 



B., xxviii, pp. 278, 286 ; id. Cat. no. 297, p. 96 ; Jerdon Mamm., p. 180. 

 Sciuropterus layardi, Kelaart Journ. Ceylon As. Soc, v, p. 215 (1850); 



Blyth J. A. S. B., XX, p. 165 J Kelaart Prodr. Faun. Zeylan., p. 36; 



Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 278. 

 Pteromys fuscocapillus, Anderson Anai. Zool. Res., p. 294 (1878). 



Distribution. — The Nilgiri hills, Travancore and the high- 

 lands of Ceylon. 



[No specimen in the Museum.] 



Sciuropterus sagitta. 



Sciurus sagitta, Linnmus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 88 (1766). 



Pteromys horsfieldii, WaterhouseP. Z. S., p. 87 (1837) ; Anderson Anat.Zool. 



Res., p 299. 

 Pteromys aurantiacus, Wagner Munch. Gel. Ann., xii, p. 438 (1841). 

 Sciuropterus horsfieldii. Cantor J. A. S. B., xv, p. 253 (1846); Blyth. 



J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 867 ; id. J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 278. 

 Sciuropterus sagitta, Miiller and Schlegel Tern. Verhandl., pp. 109, 113 



(1839-44); Blyth J. A. S. 5., xxiii, p. 731 ; id. ibid, xxiv, p. 187; Thomas, 



P. Z. S., 1886, p. 7S. 

 Sciuropterus phayrei, Blyth J. A. S. B., xxviii, p. 278(1859); id. Cat., 



no. 304, p. 97; McMaster Notes on Jerdon, p. 53; Blyth J.A.S. B. 



xliv, Burma List, p. 35. 



Distribution. — Burma, Pegu and Tenasserim, Malay peninsula, 

 Cambodia, and the islands of Java and Banka. 



The above synonymy is given under the authority of Ander- 

 son, who identified S. phayrei with S, horsfieldii of Waterhouse, 

 and of Thomas, who identifies S. horsfieldii with S. sagitta of 

 Linnaeus, but it does not seem unlikely that S. phayrei may be 

 really an independent species : it certainly seems much smaller 

 than the common squirrel, to which as to size S. sagitta is com- 

 pared by Linnaeus. 



a-i. 2 Skins Burma Sir A. Phayre and Major 



Berdmore. 



c-d. 2 Stuffed ,, Sir A. Phayre and Major 



Berdmore. 



[Types of S. phayrei, Blyth.] 



