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and Pegu, or essentially to the dividing range of hills which separate 
those provinces. The third is emphatically the Martaban Squirrel. I 
obtained it in the Martaban hills opposite to Moulmein, but never on 
the Moulmein side of the river ; though Mr. Atkinson procured one 
lower down towards Amherst. ( JA. $. XXVIII, 275.) On the 
hills behind Moulmein, it is replaced abundantly by Sc. atrodorsalis, 
Gray, which, however it may vary, is readily distinguished from all 
its Burmese congeners by having conspicuously white whiskers. Sc. 
iiyperythrus, nobis (said to be from Moulmein, but more probably 
from the hills bordering the Sitang valley), is very like Sc. atrodor- 
SALis, but lias black whiskers, the back, sides, and exterior of limbs, 
quite uniformly coloured, and no trace of the black patch upon the 
back.* Sc. Piiayrei I found to be the common species of the Mar¬ 
taban jungles, as high up as I went, far into the Yunzalin district of 
Upper Martaban ; and the only other Squirrel which I observed 
there was Sc. Berdmorei, nobis, both near Martaban station, and far 
in the interior. This largest of the striped species is a thorough 
ground Squirrel, which never ascends a tree, so far as I have seen, but 
on alarm retreats to the under-wood ; its tongue is remarkably long 
and protrusile. At Rangoon the only species that I observed was 
Sc. pygerytiirus, Is. Geoffrey, which is the ordinary Squirrel of 
Lower Pegu; but high up the Irawadi, in the Shan hills east of 
Ava, and again above Ava, Mr. W. T. Blanford met with a peculiar 
race, Sc. Blaueoreii, nobis, n. s ., which resembles Sc. Piiayrei 
except in wanting the black stripe along the flank, and in having the 
entire upper-parts greyer or less fulvescent. The four paws are 
albescent-fulvous in both races, tending more or less to rufous ; and 
both have the tails black-tipped, and the cinnamon hue of the lower 
parts extending as a median stripe along the under surface of the 
tail. Neither of these, too, has any ruddy colouring on the face and 
ears, as in Sc. atrodorsalis and Sc. iiyperythrus. From Sc. iiy- 
pirythrus, Sc. Blaneoreii is readily distinguished by its larger 
size, conspicuously black-tipped tail with pale line underneath, and 
also by the albescent-fulvous colour of the four paws above.f Sc. 
* We have specimens of Sc. atrodorsalis without the black dorsal patch ; 
but the whiskers are white, and the general colouring, especially that of the tail, 
readily distinguish them from Sc. iiyperythrus. 
f Two additional specimens of Sc. Blanfordii have since been examined, 
which have been taken to England by Mr. W. T. Blanford. 
