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8. Capt, Phayre, Moulmein. A specimen of Tupaia javanica {y.peguana) 

 in spirit, ami three skins of Squirrels, viz. Sc. chrysonotus, nobis, Sc. atrodor- 

 salis apud nos, var., and Sc. pygerythrus (?), Is. Geoff., var. 



Of these, the species referred to Sc. atrodorsalis is unquestionably iden- 

 tical with that from the province of Ye, described in XVI, 872, but differs 

 from it very remarkably in having the under-parts and inside of limbs deep 

 maronne-red instead of dilute rusty, the throat and front of the neck being 

 weaker-coloured in both, and the hairs of the tail are distinctly annulated, 

 which is not the case with the former specimen. Mr. Gray's description of 

 Sc. atrodorsalis (quoted in a note to XVI, 873), if his species be truly iden- 

 tical with the Tenasserim one, would indicate a third variety of colouring. 

 The long white or yellowish-white whiskers would seem to constitute a mark- 

 ed feature of all three. 



The Squirrel which I refer to Sc. pygerythrus, var., accords in size and 

 proportions with Sc. vittatus, except that the tail is longer and more bushy. 

 Entire upper-parts uniformly grizzled, much as in that species, or more 

 especially as in the tail of that species, — the tip of the tail being black : under- 

 parts, inside of limbs, fore-paws above, and almost the entire hind-limbs 

 exteriorly, together with a broad median line to the tail underneath continued 

 to its black tip, bright ferruginous-chesnut ; that of the belly bordered 

 laterally with black : whiskers black. This animal accords very well with my 

 brief note of Sc. pygerythrus, except in having the four paws light chesnut- 

 rufous above, continued over the exterior of the hind-limbs : and coming 

 from the Tenasserim provinces, it is far more likely to be the true Sc. pyge- 

 rythrus of Pegu, that the very distinct species inhabiting the extreme south 

 of India, which Mr. Elliot would refer to the same (XVI, 1272). 



Among the specimens procured in the neighbourhood may be remarked a 

 small grey Ephialtes, having a rufous tinge on the aigrettes and slightly 

 elsewhere in parts, which satisfactorily shows the identity of Scops sunia and 

 Sc. pennata, H., conformably with Mr. Jerdon's expressed opinion on the 

 subject (vide XIV, 550). The variation is analogous to that of the N. Ame- 

 rican Eph. asio (comprising the Red and Mottled Owls of Wilson), and to a 

 less extent it is observable in the common Syrnium aluco of Europe, as well 

 shown by the specimens of this bird in the Society's museum. Mr. G. R. 

 Gray unites Sc. pennata, H., with Eph. scops of Europe ; from which it is 



notice an interesting Clupeadous fish, the Apterygia ramcarata, Gray, of Hardwicke's 

 Illustrations, four specimens. M. Valenciennes doubts the existence of this fish, vide 

 Hist. Pom. XX, 333; supposing it to be either a mutilated or imperfectly represented 

 individual of his Pristigaster tartoor • but the total absence of the dorsal fin proves to 

 be a normal character of the species. 



