SCIURUS PLANTANI. 
and states that it is common in Java and Prince's Island, and called by the Malays, 
Ba-djing. It does not appear whence Mr. Pennant's information was obtained ; but 
the name is spelled according to the orthography used in the Dutch language. His 
description, although concise, distinctly characterizes our animal. In the year 1784, 
Captain Joh. Brandes, who visited Batavia, in a Swedish vessel, had an opportunity 
of examining the Javanese Bajing ; and a description of it, illustrated by a plain 
engraving, was published, from Ins communications in the XX I Id Volume of the 
Swedish Transactions, by Mr. S. L Ljung. The name of Sciubus Plantani was 
now applied to it, which, although perhaps objectionable in its formation, has been 
preserved ; but the publication of a Drawing, from the specimens in the Honourable 
East India Company's Museum, in which the colours are accurately exhibited, lias 
not been rendered useless by Captain Brandes* figure, which in this country can 
rarely be consulted. Boddaert, about the same period, described the Plantane Squirrel, 
from Mr. Pennant's materials, in his Elenchus Animalium, and named it Sciurus 
The next notice of our animal is given in the Catalogue of the Museum of 
Paris, by M, Geoffroy St. Hilaire, from specimens collected in Java by M. Leschenault 
de Latour. It here receives the name of bilineaius; but as the sides are marked with 
a single line, it conveys an erroneous idea of our animal, when compared with the 
Sc. bivittatus, which has two lines on each side. I have therefore preferred the 
name of M. Ljung, as the most ancient, and as recording the name first employed by 
Mr, Pennant. 
The Sciurus Plantani was one of the first quadrupeds which I observed in Java, 
and a concise notice of it was contained in a Manuscript Catalogue of a Zoological 
Collection, which was sent to England in the year 1812, Several other Sciuri from 
that Island are now arranged in the Museum of the Company, together with the 
species forwarded from Sumatra by Sir Stamford Raffles. To these the discoveries of 
Dr. George Finlayson, who accompanied John Crawfurd, Esq. in his mission to Siam, 
in this genus, have recently been added. These materials afford several new species 
to the systematic Catalogues ; and the comparisons connected with the examination 
of them, have led me to a general review of the Indian Sciuri. Several of these are 
illustrated by the manuscript remarks, and by the drawings of Dr. Francis Hamilton, 
which are deposited in the East India Company's Library, the free use of which 
lie has, with the most gentlemanly liberality, afforded to me. 
The result of my inquiries will appear after the description of the Sciurus 
