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lity." The two seem to hold, therefore, the same mutual relation as 

 Presbytis thersites and Pr. priamus, or Pr. ursinus and Pr. 



CEPHALOPTERUS.* 



* The rufous-capped striped Squirrel noticed in a foot-note to /. A. S. XVIII, 

 602, Mr. Layard terras Sc. Kelaarti, Layard ; but it does not appear sufficiently 

 distinct from Sc. Brodiei. According to Mr. Layard, " Sc. tristriatus is the 

 common low country Squirrel" (of the island) : " Sc. Brodiei is common on the 

 west coast from Point Pedro and Putlam ; replacing Sc. tristriatus, from which 

 it is easily distinguishable by its pale colour and the long pencil-tuft at the 

 extremity of the tail, — this, however, is often wanting in stuffed specimens, and 

 indeed even in live ones, the hair being but slightly attached to the skin : Sc. Ke- 

 laarti entirely replaces all the other small Sciuri from Tangalle and Hambantotte, 

 and I should fancy extends round to Trincomali. It may be described as very like 

 Sc. palmarum of India, but the head is much redder, the halves of the back and 

 belly are more blended, and the animal is altogether smaller." These three little 

 Squirrels, if different, are exceedingly affined; and all have the rufous colouring 

 under the tail which is never seen in Sc. palmarum. It would be interesting to 

 ascertain if their voices differ, for that of Sc. tristriatus is remarkably unlike 

 the voice of Sc. palmarum. 



In XVIII, 603, it is remarked that there are no Sciurt more difficult to un- 

 derstand than the group exemplified by Sc. modestus, Miiller, &c. The three 

 Darjiling specimens there referred to, as having the thighs externally of a bright 

 ferruginous colour, exemplify the Sc. lokriah, Hodgson, apud Gray, who terms 

 it the " Red-thighed Squirrel" (vide Catal. Brit. Mus. Mammal.); and the Sc. 

 lokriah, H., apud nos (J. A. S. XVI, 873), Mr. Gray designates as Sc. sub- 

 flaviventris, McClelland. In Dr. Cantor's list of the mammalia of the Malayan 

 peninsula, Sc. modestus, S. Miiller, is cited as a doubtful synonyme of Sc. 

 tenuis, Horsfield, and the habitats given by Dr. Miiller (" Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Canton,") are transferred ; but Mr. G. Moxon has recently presented the Society 

 with a specimen from Malacca, which we take to be the Malayan peninsula race 

 referred to Sc. modestus, and which is very distinct from Sc. tenuis of Java, 

 and apparently differs also from the Sc. modestus figured by Dr. Solomon Miiller. 

 Length about 8 in., of tail 9 in., its hair reaching 2\ in. farther; hind-foot with 

 claws If in. Colour of the upper parts grizzled black and golden -fulvous, deeply 

 tinged with ferruginous on the croup and tail : under-parts pale ashy ; and limbs 

 grizzled ashy externally : whiskers long and black : terminal two-thirds of the tail 

 banded with black, the alternating fulvous bars whitish towards the end : no ferru- 

 ginous on the face, sides and limbs, as in Dr. S. Miiller's figure of Sc. modestus. 

 From Sc. nigrovittatus, it differs in having no lateral stripes, nor the rufous tinge 

 about the muzzle and cheeks ; also in the decided ferruginous tinge of its croup 

 and tail, and the very distinct bands upon the latter. In the same collection were 



