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mucli prized at the festive meetings of the Edeeyahs — and par- 
ticularly at the feast observed after the death of one of the 
tribe — some of it; cooked; being always placed over the grave. 
There is another somewhat similar; which we named; pro- 
visionally; Atdocodiis Poensis. 
Family IV. SciUHiNA. 
Anomahirm Berhiamis, (Gray, in Ann. Nat. Hist., 1842.) 
Anomahirxis Fraseri, (Waterhouse, in Proc. ZooL Soc. Loud., 
Sept., 1842.) 
An. vellere longo, permolli ; corpore super nigro ; dorso 
flavescenti-fusco lavato; fronte incanescente; corpore infra albo, 
vel albido; artubus intus, patagio ad marginem et gutture fuli- 
ginoso tinctis. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudm basin . 14 unc. 0 lin. 
j; „ caudfie ... 8 6 
,; „ auris ... 1 3 
„ tarsi digitorumque . . 2 6 
Habitat. Fernando Po, West Africa. 
Spiny-tailed squirrel, blackish brown, grey grizzled ; hairs 
dull black brown, with whitish tips; shoulders whitish; tail and 
feet black; tail round; chest, belly, inside of the limbs, to the 
edge of the membranes, greyish w'hite; membranes nakedish 
below, like the back above, with a straight edge to the one 
between the back of the thighs and the tail, and a lobe supported 
by a cartilage in front; head, above and below, and the upper 
part of the neck, blackish grey; catting teeth yellow. 
This animal Is abundant at Fernando : it moves about gene- 
rally at sunset, and as in its flight from tree to tree the lateral 
membrane is expanded, it causes a singular appearance. The 
spiny formations beneath the tail are evidently for the purpose 
of assisting it in ascending the branches, or w hen stationary, in 
the erect posture, of supporting the body. The Edeeyahs call it 
I-ha he. 
Three specimens brought by Dr. Thomson were presented to 
the British Museum, 
