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slightly lighter. Referring to a note^ of Messrs. Stone and Rehn in a recent 
paper on the red tip to the tail, this is not a conspicuous feature in the individuals 
of the present series, but the annulations of the hairs of the tip are red, although 
the colour does not spread throughout the whole length of the hair. 
‘ The habits of this squirrel in different parts of its range are of consider- 
able interest ; in Perak, and also in Selangor, it is the common village squirrel, 
being abundant actually within the town of Kuala Lumpur, and also frequenting 
low country jungle, though it was not found by us at any elevation on the 
Western side of the Peninsula. On the East Coast, on the other hand, we 
never met with it near a village, nor, with a single exception, which was shot 
among the casuarinas on the sea-coast, did we come across it, except at a con- 
siderable elevation on Bukit Besar, where, together with the succeeding species, 
it was very common, though difficult to secure, as it only appeared for a short 
time in the early morning and late afternoon, and then kept to the highest 
branches of lofty jungle trees. 
‘ Mr. Annandale further notes that in Upper Perak squirrels were not 
numerous, and the only specimens seen belonged to the present form, which was 
the dominant species in the Jarum district of Rhaman, and occurred commonly 
in the villages, at least as far east as Betong.’ 
42. Sciurus nigrovittatus, Horsf. 
(Plate IV, fig-. 6) 
Sciurus nigrovittatus, Horsfield^ Zool. Res. Java (1824) ; Bonhote^ Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (7) VII, p. 452 (1901). 
Sciurus notatus, (Bodd.) Flower., P.Z.S. 1900, p. 358 ; Bonhote^ op.cit.., p. 878. 
a-c. 
3 ^ (i imm.). 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, 2500'. 
May, 1901. 
d, e. 
^ $ ad. 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, 2500'. 
28 th August, 1901. 
f 
9. 
Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, 2500'. 
3rd September, 1901 
i- 
$. 
Gedong, Batang Padang, South Perak. 
loth January, 1902. 
h. 
$. 
Telom, Perak-Pahang boundary, alt. 4000'. 
22nd January, 1902. 
Specimens from the Eastern States have the red on the face and throat 
very well marked, and produced, in some cases, into a narrow ventral line, an 
inch or more in length. 
When I wrote my paper dealing with this group, the skulls at my disposal 
were so fragmentary that a thorough description and comparison of the cranial 
differences between this species and the foregoing was impossible. 
D 
I. Stone and Rehn, Froc. Acad. Nat. Set. Philad. 1902, p. 132. 
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