SCIUEUS MCLELLANDI. 1'73 



with a tinge of ashy ; middle of back, black with a short yellowish strealc 

 iu the middle and a faint and shorter streak on each side; tail tipped black, 

 rusty in the middle ; lower parts somewhat ferruginous. 



Size of the last or a trifle larger. 



This well marked race is found in the mountains of Travancore, and 

 in Ceylon. I have had skins from the former locality, but know nothing 

 peculiar in its habits, nor is its call recorded. 



158. Sciurus sublineatus. 



Watkrhousb, p. Z. S. 1838. — Blyth, Cat. 342. — Sc. delesserli, 

 Gervais, Mag. de Zool. 1842, and Zool. Voyage de Delessert, with 

 figure. 



The Neelgherry Striped Squireel. 



Descr. — Of a dark grizzled olive color, tinged with tawny above, and 

 with three pale lines alternating with four dark ones on the back and 

 croup, the outer dark lines narrower and somewhat less dark than the 

 others ; beneath lighter, more mixed with tawny ; tail grizzled dusky olive 

 and ferruginous. Fur remarkably dense, close and soft. 



Length, head and body 5^ to 6 inches ; tail 6. 



I first procured this small squirrel on the Neelgherries in the dense 

 woods there ; where, however it is by no means common. I have since 

 killed it in Wynaad and Coorg, but only at considerable elevations. It 

 has been sent to Mr. Blyth from the mountains of Travancore, and is also 

 found in Ceylon, at Newera-ellia, and other localities. Blyth remarks 

 that this squirrel is somewhat allied to S. insignis, Horsfield, from Java. 



159. Sciurus McClellaudi. 



Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839.— Blyth, Cat. 344.— Perhaps 8c. No. 135, 

 Hodgson, New edit. British Mus. Collection, called in the preface S. chik- 

 hura ? olim S. Pemhertoni, Blyth, — Ealli Gangdin, Lepch. 



The Small Himalayan Squirrel. 



Descr. — General hue dull brownish-fulvous grizzled with black ; under 

 parts whitish-brown ; a black stripe on the nose anterior to the whiskers ; 

 a black mesial stripe from near the shoulders to the croup, and a narrow 

 lateral black stripe, with a broader fulvous one external to it from the 



