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The 
ears are small, with short dark brown hairs; irises reddy brown, and 
there is a dark crescent-shaped streak under each eye. The long 
distichous tail is of a uniform dull brick red, excepting the last four 
inches, which is dark brown, slightly mixed with pale buff hairs, 
ipee by a dark brown bar. The underneath is paler, and the 
а are covered with short blackish hairs, forming а conspicuous 
central lin 
This distinct structure of the tail from that of the typical black 
specimens seems to have been overlooked by writers subseque 
Cantor, although even this author does not actually draw attention 5 
the difference. But he classifies these varieties under * Var. В” with 
the **Syn.-Sciurus auriventer, Is. Geoff. apud Schinz,” and in the 
course of the description he notes: —* On the lower surface of the 
that the long hairs of the varieties mostly spring Бон the sides of the 
dorsal s 
vertebrze, being quite scanty on the urface—hence the feathery 
appearance. But in the typical a spring from all round 
the vertebre and are much more profuse—hence the apparent round- 
ness. "These notes, which writer ventures to thin 
signifieance, are made from the 8 ns no 
Museum collections, y assures me = 18 = the 
same with the specimens in ice Selangor Museum as quite 
ang 
recently examined. Measurements taken е the hort "ioni hairs 
of the Perak specimens ний as follows 
Typ. Ja i ids dw 27 mm. 
Var. m5 E Fes Ws (Simpang) 11 mm. 
Var. A S 3s (S. Siput) 9 mm. 
Thus apart from the he difference pu out this alone would 
appear to be worthy of attentio 
The squirrel from Simpang has been noted by Flower in his 
“Mammalia of Siam and the Malay Peninsula,” as Funambulus 
T (* P.Z.S.," 1900, p. 359). Mr. Wray, however, is now of 
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