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whiskers long and white. Specimen presented by the Rev. J. Barbe, from 

 the Tenasserim province of Ye.* 



13. Sc. chrysonotus, nobis, n. s. (PI. XXXVII, fig. 1) : a dull-coloured 

 specimen described in J. A. S. X, 920. Size of Sc. Rafflesii, or measuring 

 about 20in. long, of which the tail is half, its hair reaching 2in. or 2^in. further. 

 General colour grizzled fulvous above, the limbs and tail grizzled ashy (from 

 each hair being annulated with black and pale fulvescent), with an abruptly 

 defined black tip to the latter : under-parts and inside of limbs pale grizzled 

 ashy : in bright specimens, the nape, shoulders, and upper-part of the back, 

 are vivid light ferruginous or golden-fulvous, sometimes continued to the 

 tail, more generally shading off gradually towards the rump, and in some 

 but slightly developed even upon the nape and shoulders : whiskers long 

 and black ; and slight albescent pencils to the ears, more or less developed. 

 Common in the Tenasserim provinces. Five picked specimens, presented by 

 the Rev. J. Barbe, and E. O'Ryley, Esq., of Amherst. 



14. Sc. lokroides ( ?), Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 232 : Sc. assamensis, Mc- 

 Clelland, apud Gray, who regards this as different from Sc. lokroides of Nepal ; 

 but Mr. Hodgson's description of the latter fully applies.f From examination 

 of a very considerable number of specimens, collected at Darjeeling, different 

 parts of Assam, Cherra Poonjee, Tipperah, and Arracan, I can perceive no 

 diversity whatever, in those from different localities, unless it may be, perhaps, 

 on the average, that the Himalayan specimens are somewhat more rufescent 

 underneath ; but every gradation is even here observable. Mr. Gray, however, 

 extends the range of Sc. assamensis to Darjeeling ; and I have seen no specimens 

 from Nepal proper. It is nearly allied to the preceding species, but is smaller, 

 with rarely a trace of the black tip to the tail, and the nape and shoulders are 

 uniformly coloured with the rest of the upper-parts : the whole being more 

 or less rufescent in different specimens, in a slight degree only ; and some- 

 times when most so, the under-parts are most albescent, or scarcely sullied. In 

 some the tail is very rufescent underneath, on the median line nearly through- 

 out its length. I retain for the Museum two Darjeeling specimens, presented 

 by Mrs. Saxon and C. S. Bonnevie, Esq. ; two from Assam, presented by Major 

 Jenkins andW. C. Thorburn, Esq.; one (half grown), from Cherra Poonjee, 

 presented by F. Skipwith, Esq. ; and three from Arracan, presented by Capt. 

 Phayre and Capt. Abbott. 



14, a. In the collection of a native gentleman (who has obligingly favored me 

 with the loan of the animal, for comparison with the various allied species), is a 

 living specimen of a Squirrel, (pi. XXXVII, fig. 3,) habitat unknown, which 

 differs from Sc. lokroides (? v. assamensis) in having the under-parts and inside 

 of limbs deep ferruginous as in the next, except the throat and breast, passing 

 along the median line of the belly, which parts are of a deep grizzled ash-colour 

 without a tinge of rufous, and much of the same hue as the crown and exterior 

 of the limbs and feet : the body and tail having a fulvescent tinge, but less 

 strong than is usual in Sc. lokroides ; and the tail being slightly black-tipped, 

 but with pale ends to the hairs. The rufous of the under-parts does not 

 extend underneath the tail. It this be considered distinct and new, it may 

 bear the name Sc. griseopectus, nobis. 



15. Sc. lokriah (?), Hodgson, J. A. S.V, 232: Sc. subflaviventris, Mc- 



* Sc. atrodorsalis, Gray, is assigned to Bhotan.— " Gray ; middle of the back blackish, 

 slightly grizzled; cheeks and whiskers yellowish; ears, chest, belly, and under side of 

 limbs, dull rufous : tail blackish— hair with abroad black central band." Not impro- 

 bably a dull specimen of that above described, with the locality erroneous. 



t Mr. Gray refers Sc griseoventer, Is. Geoff. (Zoology of Belanger's Voyage), from 

 Java, to Sc. assamensis, instead of to Sc. nigrovittatus, Horsfield, with which it agrees 

 entirely. 



