SCIURUS PL A NT AN I. 
10. SCIURUS ERYTHRiEUS, Pallas. 
Sc. supra ex flavo et fusco mistus, infra ex sanguineo fulvus, auriculis cilia tis, cauda 
ex sanguineo fulva. Gmel 
Das rothbauchige Eichhorn, Schreb. Savgfh. 
Ruddy Squirrel, Perm. Quad. II. 143. 
This species is only known by the account of Pallas ; and as this is 
concise, I shall give it in his own words. 
" Descriptum specimen magnitudine erat Sciuri vulgaris, vel paulo forte majus. 
Color corporis fere qui in Cavia Aguti observatur, luteo fuscoque mixti pills; subtus 
longitudinaliter sanguineo fulvus seu saturatissime rufus. Idem color est cauda? 
tereti-villosse, et quam fascia superne longitudinalis nigricans legit. Palmae tetradac- 
tylae, verruca insignis, loco pollicis notatae. Plantse pentadactyl«e. Auriculae sub- 
barbate." — Pallas glir. p. 377. 
Native place, according to Pallas, East India. 
11. SCIURUS BICOLOR, Sparrmann. 
Sc, supra niger, infra fulvus, auriculis acutis imberbibus, palmarum ungue pollicari 
magno rotundato. 
Sciurus bicolor, Andreas Sparrmann t Gotheborgsha Handlingar. Weienskap St X 
p. 70. 1778. Linn. Syst Ed. Gmel I. p. 148. Desmar. Encycl Mammakg. 
p. 336. 
Javan Squirrel, Penn. Hist Quadr. II. 409, Ed. 3. II. 142. Shaw's Zool 11. p. 130. 
Das Javanische Eiehhorn, Sckreb. Saugth. p. 781. Tab, CCXVI. 
The description of Sparrmann appears to have been made from a young animal : 
he gives twelve inches to the length of the body, and as much to the tail. The adult 
is considerably larger : two specimens in the Honourable Company's Museum might 
be considered as belonging to a distinct species, were the subject not illustrated by 
the following observation of Sir Stamford Raffles, " A young male," he says, *' of the 
S. bicolor, procured from the Straits of Simda, had the whole of the tail of the same 
