»ides. The muzzle is yellowish, but passing gradually into the colour of the upper
parts. The head appears to be large for the size of the animal. The striking feature,
of this squirrel is the black tufting to the ears; the backs of these organs are
clad with long jet-black hairs which forcibly contrast with the colour of the
body, and the hair projects nearly half an inch beyond their margins, so that they
are prominently pencilled. I know of no other Asiatic squirrel of the size of
this species with similar ears. A beautiful violet-white patch occurs on the
side of the neck, behind the black ears. The under parts are a rich orange-
red, like /S'. lokriah, to which, if the ear-tufts and lappets were omitted, the
species has a strong resemblance. The tail is concolorous with the back, only
the individual rings are broader, as is generally the case on the tails of all
squirrels.
Inches..
Length of body 6‘75
Tail without hair . . . . • • • • • • • 5-75
„ with hair . . . . . . . . . . . 7‘50
This species has been found only in the Celebes.
The series in the Leyden and Paris Museums from the Celebes prove that the
white on the side of the neck is not always present, for one specimen shows it disappearing
and in another there is no trace of it, and others lead from the one to the
other extreme, but when this neck spot is fully developed it forms a great violet-
white lappet.
Sciurus AiiSTONi, n. s. Plate XXI.
This beautiful species, in the colouring of the upper parts and tail, closely
resembles S. lokriah, whilst the under parts differ in being dusky chestnut instead
of orange. The peculiarity of the species is the beautiful pure white tufting to
the ears, which projects a considerable way backwards, in a pointed manner. The.
external surface of the tip of the ear is covered with short brown hairs which
stand out against the white. The sub-apical brown, or rather black band of the
hairs of the tail, is broad and rather deeply edged with whitish; the tip of the
tail is blackish, and the remainder more or less obscurely tinged with black and
orange.
The incisors are pale yellow, and narrow: the facial portion of the skull
is rather short and moderately pointed, and the nasals are rather broad posteriorly.
Inches.
Length, muzzle to tail . . . . . • • • • • 7*15
„ of tail without hair . . . . . • • • • • 6-50-
- 'n » with hair . . . • • . . . .. 8'80
The locality from whence this species was obtained has not been accurately
ascertained, but it is probably Borneo.
S c iu r u s p e r n y i , A. M.-Edwards.
Sciwrus pernyi, A. M.-Edw. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. Juillet, 1867, p. 230, pi. xix.; Rech, des
Mammif. 1868-74, p. 802.
The muzzle, the upper surface of the head, the nape, the back, the fla.nks and
the outer surface of the limbs are black, punctulated with yellow. The throat, the
chest, and the belly are white. The inside of the fore limbs is whitish, but on the
hind limbs this colour is mixed with yellow on their anterior borders. Around the
vent and on the adjacent parts of the base of the tail a brilliant red prevails, and
is continued along within the posterior margin of the hind limbs, as far as the
heel. The feet are black, punctulated with rufous. The cheeks have a grey tint,,
and the moustachial hairs are black. The eyes are encircled by short brown hairs.
The ears are large, rounded, and not pencilled. Above the ears, and at their base,
there is a clear orange-yellow spot. The tail is a little shorter than the body; the
hairs are annulated black and red, but have long yellow or grey tips, a reddish,
tint prevailing on the under surface.
This species was discovered in the Province of Sd-tchouan, China.
S c iu r t j s m o d e s t u s , Müller & Schlegel;
Sciurus modestus, Miiller und Schlegel, Verhandl. 1889-44, pp. 87, 96,. pi. xxiv. figs. 1-3; Wagner,
Schreber, Säugeth. Suppl. vol. iii. 1843, p. 203; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. vol. ii. 1845, p. 40;
Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xviii. 1849, p. 608; ibid. vol. xx. 1851, p. 166.
Sciurus affinis, Horsfield (not Raffles), Zool. Research, in Java, 1824; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1*29
(in part), p. 355; Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co/s Mus. 1851, p. 156; Lesson, Man. de Zool. 1827,
p. 234 (in part) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. (in part), 1845, vol. ii. p. 44.
Sciurus tenuis, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. vol. xvi. 1847, p. 874 (in part) ; Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat..
Hist. 1867, vol. xx. p. 274.
Sciwrus concolor, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxiv. July 1855, p. 474; ibid. vol. xx. 1851
p. 166; xxiv. 1855, p. 474; Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 103.
The type of S. modestus in the Leyden Museum has the tail imperfect, but
the body measures 6 inches. There is no grey on the head, and the feet are concolorous
with the limbs, but slightly grizzled with black. The eye has a rufous-
yellow area around it like S. plcmtani, Ljung, S. vittatus, Raffles, S.. tenuis, Horsfield,
and S. philippensis, Waterhouse; but the pale, similarly coloured band in front of
the eye which occurs in IS., tenuis is .not well defined. We may reasonably, however,
conclude that S. modestus and S. aßnis, Horsfield, are the same species, but
the squirrel first described by Raffles from Singapore as S. affinis, and which he
stated attained to nearly the size of S. bicolor, cannot be reconciled with this much
smaller species. I have considered /S'. affinis, Raffles, as an immature example,
of S..bicoloi\
The head is concolorous with the back, whilst in /S', affinis, Horsfd., it is grey
or whitish, but the two agree in the following characters: back olive-brown, passing.