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skins are to hand from other parts to which it can be referred I am 
not yet in a position to say. That just described, however, is being 
sent to Mr. Oldfield Thomas for identification, and we can but await 
his verdict 
Cantor, in a footnote to кешке ys = us (=P. petaurista, Pallas) 
says :—“ In an individual from Malacca the back was very dark Indian 
red with a ae dashes of ne pin te. he des ue of the specimen is, 
however, doubtful" I take it that this specimen is likewise the one 
mentioned by Blanford as the original ty pe of Pteromys punctatus 
(* Fauna of Brit. India сараи іа, р. 366). за description of 
the species is, however, brief; but it may be of interest to quote it 
here as I am inelined to think that the eut animal if not actually 
determined as punctatus will come remarkably nea 
“ Ears almost naked except towards the base. 
“ CoLour.—Upper parts rich yellowish brown, darker on the head, 
more rufous € on the parachute and limbs; back and crown with small 
irregular white s E ре ок of hairs that are white throughout, 
ba. sal то үз of all other hairs on upper parts dusky. Lower parts 
= sides of head me rufous, deeper towards the edge of the 
rachute. Tail light rufous brown throughout. 
“ DIME . head and body (in a dried skin) about 14 
or Es та ye length of skull about 2 inches, zygomatic breadth 
IL? inch.” 
‘rom this description two marked Mirage in the gerat 
з that of the Perak specimen can be drawn: the yellowish bro 
he back and the light rufous brown of the tail. But taking into 
Biss orca the remarkable instances of individual variations in many 
of the species of the Sciuride it is doubtful if these differences can be 
counted on as specifie. However, both Cantors and Blandford's 
Бае of the white markings hardly apply to the skin under discus- 
sion, they being neither “few” nor could they with any degree of 
precision be designated “small white spots.” On the neck, haido 
and fore part of the back they are so Aia and dashy, in fact, as to 
present a tendency towards streakines 
Bandford's peu was obtained from Karennee at an altitude 
of about 4,000 feet. The Tea Gardens on the Larut Hills are situated 
hich 
at just on 2,000 ak above mean sea level; and, another detail, whic 
is perhaps worth ding. i is that the individual f. forming the subject г 
this note was shot, and others have since been seen in com 
P. petaurista. Mr. Boomgardt, of Taiping, who is responsible for the 
imal, told me that he had shot a similar squirrel at Alwaye in 
ancore about ten years ago: but I do not consider the information 
тау 
sufficiently reliable to attach much significance to 
РквАК Strate MUSEUM, FRED. W. KNOCKER. 
Tarpine, Ist March, 1905. 
