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grizzle ; lips, cheeks, neck in front and on the sides, belly, and Umbs in- 

 ternally, yellow or yellowish white. Ears ovate, acuminate, with short 

 hair, not tufted, or whitish externally with a very small black tuft. 



Length, head and body 12 to 13 inches ; tail 12, or with the hair 13|-. 



The fur is coarse, slightly waved, and varies from maroon-black to rufous 

 brown, and the hairs are often grizzled and tipped white and yellow. In 

 many specimens the anterior half is black or nearly so, and the posterior 

 parts light brown. Oae that was sent to me from Travancore was of a 

 grizzled yellow-brown color above, slightly darker on the top of the head, 

 beneath dirty straw color, the toes blackish-brown. 



Length 11 inches ; tail 10. 



Blyth mentions a ruddy- white or whitish isabelline variety from Ceylon. 



This squirrel is stated to have been sent from the jungles of Mysore 

 and the Neelgherries. I have only had it myself from Travancore, and 

 cannot speak with certainty of its geographic limits. 



S. ephippium, S. Miiller, from Borneo, is another species of this division. 



The next group consists of squirrels of medium size, with grizzled fur. 

 They are peculiar to South-eastern Asia and its islands, and, as Blyth 

 remarks, are extraordinarily developed in the Indo-Chinese countries and 

 Malayan peninsula, where the species, or permanent races, would seem to 

 be almost endless, differing more or less in size and coloring. In India 

 they are confined to the south-east Himalayas, and the provinces north- 

 east of Bengal. 



153. Sciurus lokriah. 



Hodgson. — Blyth, Cat. 327. — S. subflaviventrts, McLelland. — Lok- 

 ria, Nepal — Zhdmo, Bhot. — Killi or Kalli tingdong, Lepch. 



The Orange-bellied Gray Squirrel. 



Descr. — Above dark grizzled olive-brown, the hairs tipped with orange 

 color ; beneath and thighs deep orange yellow ; tail concolorous with the 

 body above, ferruginous beneath, distichous, flattened, rather broad, with a 

 donble margin of black and hoary. 



Length, head and body about 8 inches ; tail 6^ to 8 (with the hair). 



154. Sciuius lokrioides. 



Hodgson. — Blyth, Cat. 328. — S. lokriah, apud Gray. 



