SCIURUS PL ANT AN I. 
the head above, and all the upper parts, the thighs, and the bi parted line on the 
cheeks, are black with a cast of deep blue ; the under parts are yellow, of a light tint ; 
the tail is light gray ; the nose flesh-coloured, and the feet black ; between the ears a 
white band stretches across the head. Both species agree m having the ears tufted 
with long black hairs. 
From a drawing prepared in Ceylon for J. G. Loten, Esq. preserved in the 
Banksian Library . 
16. SCIURUS MAXIMUS, Gmel. 
Sc. capite colloque supra dorso lateribus fascia transversa genum pedibusque ex 
rubicundo fuscis, armis femoribus tergo uropygio caudaque praster apicem 
nigris, subtus fascia occipitali caudaque apiee flavicantibus, gen is sordide fulvis, 
Easoo, of the people who inhabit the Ratufar hills : Dr. Francis Hamilton's MS. 
Le grand Ecureuil de la Cote de Malabar, Sonnerat V vjag. torn, % pag. 139. pi 87- 
Buffon Hist. Nat. Suppl VYl.p. 254, pi LXII. 
Sciurus indicus, Erxleb. mamm. p. 420, (1777 ) Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel 149. 
Sciurus purpureus, Zimm. Zool Geogr. quadr. p. 518, (1777.) 
Sciurus bombay us, Bodd. Elm. anim. p. 118, (1785.) 
Sciurus maximus, Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel p. 149* excluso charactero specifico, (1788.) 
JDesmar. Encycl Mammalog. p. 334. 
Malabar Squirrel, Penn. Hist. Quadr. Ed. 3. II. p. 141* 
Bombay Squirrel, Penn. Syn. Quadr. p. 281. Hist. Quadr. II. p. 409. Ed. 3, II. 
p. 143. SJtaufs Zool IL p. 133. 
Great Squirrel, Shan's Zool II. p. 127. 
Das malabarische Eichhorn, Schreb. Sdugth. p. 784. T. CCXVIL B. 
Das Eichhorn von Bombay, Schreb. Sdugth. p. 786. 
This species, which has been named, by way of distinction, the Great 
Squirrel, is only equalled by the Sciurus hypoleucos. The first description of it is 
given by M. Sonnerat, in the second Volume of his Travels, with the name of grand 
Ecureuil de la cote de Malabar : he also communicated to the celebrated Buffon, a 
prepared skin of an Indian Squirrel, the description of which, by the Count La 
Cepede, contained in the Vllth Volume of the Supplement to the Natural History, 
agrees in all points with this animal. Various specific names have been applied to it 
