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in all of a blackish-brown ; but the single bristles of the abdomen are 

 sometimes fulvous. 



The black- coated individuals stand in a similar relation to the light- 

 coloured varieties, as that in which the black-coloured Hylobates Lar 

 stands to the light- coloured. Such differences of colour, wide no doubt, 

 are of no uncommon occurrence among the Malayan Mammalia, and 

 ought to be well considered by Zoologists, who have not the oppor- 

 tunity of studying the living animals. 



This, as well as the rest of the Malayan squirrels, is capable of being 

 tamed to a certain extent, and evinces attachment to those who feed 

 them, but the appearance of a strange person, animal, or even an unu- 

 sual sound, startles them, and recalls their natural shyness. The largest 

 of a great number, measured from the apex of the nose to the root 

 of the tail one foot six inches ; the tail one foot nine and a half inches. 

 The intestinal canal was of the following dimensions : 



Small Intestines, . . . . . . 9 feet 6 inches. 



Large ditto, . . . . . . 4 ,, 9 „ 



Csecum, . . . . . . 1 „ 2 „ 



Sciurus Rafflesii, Vigors and Horsfield. 

 Syn. — Sciurus rufogularis, Gray. 



Sciurus rufoniger, Gray. 



Sciurus Prevostii, Desmar. apud Schinz. 



" Tupai baling" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Java, Borneo, China* (Canton.) 



* China is the habitat assigned to Sciurus rufogularis, Gray. Without doubting the 

 authenticity, it is perhaps as well to observe, that skins of the more showy animals and 

 birds of India, Malacca, and the Indian Archipelago, are offered for sale as indige- 

 nous productions in the shops of Canton and Macao. Skins of Halcyon Smyrnensis 

 For instance, and other birds from different parts of India, are bought up by the 

 Chinese merchants of our colonies in the Straits of Malacca, who annually, on Chinese 

 Junks, ship quantities of considerable value to China, where they are manufactured 

 into fans and artificial flowers. In a list of birds, contained in a collection of 

 Chinese productions, exhibited in London in 1842, Mr. H. E. Strickland observes 

 in his communication to the Zoological Society, that some of them appear to 

 have been imported from Malacca. Skins and other parts of a host of animals, from 

 the most distant parts of Asia, form items in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. On my visits 

 to Chinese Dispensaries in China and in our Malayan Colonies, 1 have been shewn 

 horns of rhinoceroses and deer, tusks of the Duyong, heads of Buceri, tortoise-shells, 

 and well preserved skins of Trigonocephalus Blomhoffii, from Japan; Ammonites and 

 other fossils, cum multis aliis, all supposed to possess specific virtues, and accordingly 

 prescribed by Chinese Medical practitioners. 



