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sides— Head streaked longitudinally with brown 

 acd wliite— while lunuie at the base of each ear* 

 Tail and legs dai ker than the body— The former 

 shortish, straight, obtuse— Size of the common 

 cat, aod resembles m most particulars the /eiis 

 Bei7gaia:sis. Fierce. 



Sciurus bimlor, Desm, Gmelin. The Java squir- 

 rel—Fur above deep brown or blackish ; below^ 

 clear fawn color, with awhile longitudinal stripe 

 dividing the two colors— Eyes encircled with 

 black— Ears not pencilled— About a foot long— 

 Tail the same, distichous. This is a beautiful 

 species of squirrel, but the one which I had in 

 my po^session resisted every attempt to tame it. 



sSaurus l}ai{jwg, GmeL (Synonime, Sciurus Jia- 

 mt, Pennant), the Plantain squirrel. Color 

 throughout pale yellow— Size the same as the 

 last ; gentle and easy tamed— This .species is con* 

 sidered T»y Mr, Stark not to be well established,, 

 and he therefore merely mentions the name with- 

 out including it in his clasKification. As, how- 

 ever, I procured a live specimen in the interior 

 of the Peninsula, and kept it for some weeks, I 

 have restored it to its proper place in the cata- 

 logue. 



Besides the above, there are three or four va* 

 rieties of flying squirrels, viz. the Pleromt/s pe* 

 taurhia of Desmarest, or Scinrus petaurisla of 

 Gmelin and Pallas, about seventeen inches long ; 

 the P. nitidiis of Desmarest, which is a slight va- 

 riety of the preceding ; the P. sagiHa of the same 

 author, or Sciurus sagitta of Gmelin, the Javan 

 flying squirrel, six inches long ; &:c, 



Afus Javanus, Desm, (Synonime, Mus pihr- 



