SCIURUS PL ANT AN I. 
under parts throughout, and the extremity of the tail, are gray. This latter organ 
is cylindrical, somewhat distended in the middle, and then tapering to a point; the 
transverse bands are irregular. Between the tints of the sides and abdomen, a stripe 
of reddish brown intervenes, which is continued to the neck. The whiskers consist 
of black and white hairs intermixed. The ears are rounded above, and without any 
brush-like appendage. The length of the body and head is nine, and of the tail 
seven inches. 
Sir Stamford Raffles discovered this species in 1819, in the woods of Singapore. 
One specimen, from Pulo Panjang, in the Gulf of Siam, is contained in Dr. Finlay son's 
Collection. This specimen is somewhat smaller than the Sciurus bicolor, to which 
Sir Stamford compares the size of the Sciurus affinis, as it is observed in Singapore, 
Museum of the East India Company. 
9. SCIURUS TENUIS, Nobis. 
Sc. supra fulvo saturate nigroque tenuissime varius, margine lateral! fulvescente, 
subtus flavicante cinereus, cauda fulva nigro fasciata. 
The entire length of the body and head is five inches and an half, and of 
the tail five inches. It differs from the affinis in size, and in having generally a 
darker tint. The covering above is uniformly and delicately variegated with dark 
tawny and blackish brown ; towards the sides the tint becomes fulvous, with some 
lustre, but no defined line or streak is apparent. The sides of the head and neck 
have the same colour. The under parts of the neck and abdomen, and the extremi- 
ties interiorly, are pale yellowish gray, with a slight tint of fulvous. The tail above 
is gray, with obscure black bands, and irregular tawny specks ; it has the same form 
as in the Sc. affinis, being narrow at the base, broader in the middle, and terminated 
by a long, attenuated, grayish tuft, which is obscurely banded with black. The 
separate hairs covering the tail have a band of a fulvous colour at the base, of black 
in the middle, and of gray at the extremity, 
Native place, Singapore. 
Museum of the East India Company, from Dr. Finlayson's Collection. 
