1846.] the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 249 



This species, numerous in the Malayan countries, occurs with the 

 following individual variations of colour — 



Cheeks and throat iron-grey, shoulders uniformly, or mixed with red. 

 (Sciurus rufogularis, Gray. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 263.) 



The cheeks are sometimes dark-brown, or ferruginous. 



In some the white lateral line commences from the side of the nose, 

 passing over the cheeks, the side of the neck, and over the shoulder. 

 The lateral line is either pure white, more or less distinct, or mixed 

 with single longer hairs with black apex. 



Some have a short black line immediately below the white ; in others 

 there is above the latter a grizzled line, sometimes continued over the 

 outside of the thigh. The tail is seldom uniformly black, frequently 

 partially black, reddish or grizzled, owing to the apex of the hairs being 

 white. The tuft is frequently reddish or rust-coloured. 



The feet are sometimes white or pale ferruginous. 



The Museum of the Asiatic Society possesses a specimen from Java, 

 differing from Sciurus rufoniger, Gray, in having the tail grizzled instead 

 of black. Sciurus redimitus, Van der Boon, is probably another variety 

 of S. Raffiesii. 



A young male, about a fortnight in confinement, after having finished 

 his usual meal of cocoanut, seized and devoured an Iora typhia, which 

 had just been shot, and happened to be placed within reach. Sparrows 

 and other smaller birds were subsequently eaten, and apparently relished. 



The largest male measured from the apex of the nose to the root of 

 the tail eleven and a half inches ; the tail one foot two inches. 



Sciurus hippurus, Is. Geoffroy. 



•Sciurus erythrseus, Pallas (?) 



Sciurus caudatus, McClelland ? ^Apud Gray : List. 



Sciurus anomalus, Kuhl. 



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Sciurus rufogaster, Gray. 

 Sciurus castaneoventris, Gray. 



"Tiipai Jinjang," " Ummu," or " Jau" of the Malays of the 

 Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Java, Sumatra, Assam, China (Canton). 



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