MAMMALS. 



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it is possible that all the Peninsular Funambuli are really one race, 

 and that the differences are really seasonal and not subspecitic. — 

 H. C. K] 



21. PUNAMBULUS LATIOAUDATUS (M. S.). 



Rhinosciurus laticaudatus, Mull., Schleg. Verh., 1839, p. 100, pi. 5, 

 fig. 1-3; Robinson, Journ., Fed. Mai. States Mu8., p. b'O (1905). 

 Funambulus laticaudatus (M. S.) ; Flower, op. cit., p. 359. 

 ;i. Kuala Tembeliug, Fahanj? River. 20th August, 1905. 

 A very bright-coloured specimen with pure white underparts. 

 Rare and local in the Malay Peninsula and very easily overlooked. 



A single specimen of a squirrel, allied to F. rufigenis, appears to be 

 sufficiently distinct to be worthy of subspeeific rank, and I propose to 

 cali it after Mr. H. C. Belfield, British Resident of Selangor, who has 

 taken a keen interest in the Zoology of the Malay Peninsula. 



22. FUNAMBULUS RUFIGEMS BJfLMELDI, subsp. hoc. 

 (Plate I.) 



Sciurus rufigenis, Blanf., Robinson, Journ., Fed. Mai. States Mus., 

 p. 65 (1905). 



Differs from the typical rufigenis in having the back paler and 

 slightly grizzled. The hairs are dark as their bases with reddish tips, 

 whereas in the typical F. rufigenis they are of a much brighter red, 

 which is continued to their base. The small patch behind the 

 ear, which in the typical form is buffish, is in this form pure 

 snow-white. The tips of the hairs on the hind-feet and thighs are 

 also redder. Except for these difference, it closely resemble the 

 typical F. rufigenis. 



The skull shows no distinctive characters. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh).— Head and body, 

 203 mm. ; tail, 143 mm. : hind-foot, 42 mm. ; ear, 19 mm. 



Skull. — Greatest length, 54.5 mm. ; basal length, 45 mm. ; length 

 of palate to henselion, 24 mm. ; interorbital breadth, 17 mm. ; length 

 of nasals, 18 mm. ; length of molar series, 10.5 mm. 



Habitat.— Gunong Ulu Kali, Selangor, alt. 4,800-5,800 ft. 



Type. — Ad., collected by Mr. H. C. Robinson on the 9th February, 

 1906. 



The much redder cheeks and snow-white patch behind the ear 

 form very characteristic marks of this race by which it may be easily 

 distinguished. The type locality of the true F. rufigenis is the forest 

 region, east of Moulmein, at an altitude of 5,000 ft, 



[This Squirrel, of which sevei*al specimens have been obtained 

 recently, is very abundant on the above-mentioned mountain, which, it 

 should be noted, has no connection with Gunong Tahan, being nearly a 

 hundred miles distant, It lives mainly among the crowns of the giant 

 pandanus which form a characteristic feature of the higher elevations 

 of certain portions of the Peninsular main range, of which Gunong 

 Ulu Kali is the highest peak in oelangor. — H. C. K.j 



