SC1URUS PLANT ANI. 
his mission to Siam and Cochin-China. An interesting collection of quadrupeds., 
birds, and other objects of Natural History, the result of his meritorious labours 
during the visit of the mission to those countries, has been deposited in the Museum 
of the Honourable East India Company ; and I have introduced the new species 
discovered by Dr. Finlayson, in this Catalogue of Indian Sciuri. These materials 
have also afforded the means of comparing several species previously described. 
Dr. Finlayson embarked for Europe, in the ship the General Hewett, soon after 
his return to Calcutta, in charge of the Collections. His health was in a precarious 
state, from the effects of an Indian climate ; and we have to lament that he did not 
live to return to his native country. 
This species has hitherto been mentioned by Buffon alone, from the following 
concise notice in P. Tachard's Travels. " Nous y (at Lonpeen, a village situated in 
the extensive forests of Siam) vimes aussi des Ecureuils, qui ont le poil parfaitement 
blanc et la peau tres-noire." — Second Voyage du P. Tachard, Paris, 1689, p. 249. 
The following description is extracted from Dr. Finlay son's manuscripts: — " The 
head and body yellowish white ; the head round ; the cheeks full ; the nose large ; 
the ears large, plain, not tufted; the iris dark brown ; the whiskers long and black; 
the tail bushy, interspersed with black hairs, and tufted j palms of the feet black. 
This is an elegant, lively, and active species of Squirrel, almost perfectly white. 
The body is about seven inches in length, and the tail is equal in length to the body. 
The eyes are black and lively ; and the animal, though white, has not the leucaethiopie 
habit common in the animals of Siam. It frequents large trees, feeds on their bark 
and fruit, and is generally seen upon a tall species of Aleurites. One of the speci- 
mens was shot by Lieut. Rutherford, on the Islands called Sichang, in the Gulf of 
Siam," 
Museum of the East India Company. 
8. SCIURUS AFFINIS, Baffles. 
Sc. corpore supra cano fuscoque vario, subtns capite caudeeque apice canis, taenia 
laterali fulvescente, cauda fusco fasciata. 
Sciurus afnnis, Sir T* S, Raffles** Cat. of a Zoo!. Coll made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 
Soc. XIII. p. 259. 
The hairy covering of the upper parts is fulvous brown, with a cast of 
gray ; it is variegated with delicate transverse bands. The whole of the head, the 
