SCIURUS PLANTANI. 
Ord. IV 1 ? 6 Rongeurs, Cuvier. 1™ Division. 
Oed. IV. Glires, Linn. Syst 
Ord. IV. Prensiculantia, UHger, Fara. 9, Agilia. 
SCIURUS, Linn. Briss. Erxleb. Bodd. Cuv. Geoff. Ittig. <$c. 
Char. Gvs.—Dentittm formula ; Primores |> Molares |=|. Primores superiores 
pagina antica laeves, inferiores admodum compressi acuti. Pro Laniariis 
diastema, Molares abrupti obducti tritores, supra antico accessorio. 
Rostrum acutum. Labrum fissum. Sacculi buccales uulli. Auricula oblongae, 
penicillatus vel rotundatae, simplices. 
Cauda elongata villosa, compressi usculo-disticha vel cylindrica. Mamma apertas. 
* Cauda disticha. 
Sciurus supra fulvo fuscoque varius, subtus circulo oculos cingente strigaque 
utrinque laterali fulvis, cauda corpore paululum longiore nigro annulata. 
Bajingy of the Javanese and Malays. 
Plantane Squirrel, Pennants Hist, of Quadr. Second Edition, 1781. II. p. 416. 
n. 281.— Third Ed. 11. p. 151. n. 848. Shaw's Zool II. 148. 
Sciurus Plantani, Sven Ingemar Ljung. Kongl Vetensk. Acad. nya. HandL XXII, 
1801. p. 99. Wulemantfs Archiv, III. 2. p. 249. 
Sciurus notatus, Boddaert Elen. anim. I. p. 119. 
Sciurus bilineatus, Geoff. Collect, du Mas. Vesmar. ?iouv. Diet. cPHist. nat. torn. 10, 
p. 106. Desmar. Encycl Method. Mammalog. p. 336. 
THE first notice of the animal which has been selected for this article, was 
communicated to the Public by Mr. Pennant, in the year 1781, in the second edition 
of his History of Quadrupeds. He applies the name of Plantane Squirrel to it, 
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