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casque, when present, low and compressed, with its hindmost portion rising 

 gradually from the forehead and more or less concealed by the feathers, differ 

 so variously in other respects that no two before me can be specially ap- 

 proximated together. Still, an examination of the remaining species of the 

 genus might elucidate their mutual affinities. 



For the above reason, with the view of tracing those affinities, our desi- 

 derata comprise all species not included in the foregoing list. Of those of 

 India, we have not the young of B. cavatus, nor of B. pica j nor the young 

 female of B. nipalensis : and more specimens of B. gingalensis would be 

 acceptable. And of the species inhabiting the Malayan peninsula, we 

 want B. corrugatus j the young of B. comatus and of B. bicolor j and good 

 series of B. intermedins and B. nigrirostris, with males of B. malayanus : also, 

 especially, good specimens of B. galeatus j and any species procured in the 

 Archipelago. 



E. Blyth. 



Addendum to Report on the Sciuridce, p. 864 et seq., ante. In a letter 

 just received from Mr. Jerdon, now stationed at Tellicherry, on the Malabar 

 coast, that gentleman remarks — " With regard to the Squirrels, we have, of 

 course, the large one (purpureus), sometimes all red, sometimes with a consi- 

 derable mixture of black ; but never nearly all black, and never with tuftless 

 ears. We have also tristriatus to the exclusion ofpalmarum, throughout the 

 whole Malabar coast from Cape Comorin, only extending to the forests at 

 the edge of the ghats above. Throughout all the Carnatic, Mysore, Hydra- 

 bad, &c. only palmarum. I suspect the tristriatus is never found far from 

 forest country. The trilineatus occurs, I find, in some of the forests of the 

 ghats as well as in the Nilgherries.' , 



E. B. 



