SCIUEUS. 377 



SciuRTJS (Rheithrosciueus) macrotis, Gray. 



Sciurus macrotis, Gray, Ptoc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1856, p. 341, pi. xlvi. 

 Eheithroscmrus macrotis, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 1867, p. 272. 



Tlie head is large, compressed, and short ; the ears are large, with a pencil of 

 elongated hairs at their tips ; the feet are large and strong ; and the sides of the 

 animal are laterally banded. 



The general colour is dark chestnut-brown, very minutely punctulated ; the 

 hind quarters, including the base of the tail, and the outsides of the fore and hind 

 limbs, bright bay ; the feet blackish. There is a brownish band from the axilla to 

 the groin, with a yellowish- white band above it. The cheeks and inner sides of the 

 limbs are pale brownish ; the chin, throat, and under parts, white. Tail, broad and 

 full, grizzled, and vpith long white tips to the hairs. 



Habitat. — Sarawak, Borneo. 



