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Show 1870.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS. 633 eye to lip. Moustache- and face-bristles black. Snout, under level of nose, part of cheeks, and throat white. Throat, under neck, chest, and central underparts black, grizzled with white. Inside of ear well clothed and cf a lively buff colour, which extends to the edges ; back of ear brownish black. Upper parts buff, many of the hairs of the hind neck and shoulders being broadly tipped with black. Crown and hind neck washed with chestnut, which brightens as it runs down the back in a broad line. Under-fur greyish brown. Fore legs clothed with reddish-brown under-fur, and covered with black and white hair, with a broad deep black line running down their anterior surface to the feet; under carpus and feet fine brownish chestnut, brown on the hair about the palms. A bright chestnut-buff line ruus down each side of the belly, from the fore leg to the hind leg, and narrows as it advances down inner side of hind leg, where it is flanked inwardly with a white line. Thighs grizzled with black, white, and chestnut. Tail bushy, bright chestnut on the upper surface, with many of the hairs broadly tipped with black ; under surface much paler, with more black ; tip white. Snout to root of tail 32 inches; tail 17, with 2-75 length of hair beyond tip. Fore leg 11 inches, hind leg 12*5. Ear 2*75 long, 1*75 broad at base. 48. 1 OTARIA STELLERI. (Steller's Sea-bear.) Otaria stelleri, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. I have been informed by the European pilots at Shanghai that they have often seen Seals basking on some islands called "the Ruggeds," at the mouth of the Yangtsze. I have not been so fortunate as to get a specimen ; but it is not unlikely that they will turn out to be the same as the animal recorded from South Japan. RODENTIA. 49. SCIURUS CASTANEOVENTRIS. (Chestnut-bellied Squirrel.) Sciurus castaneoventris, Gray, Ann. N. H. ser. 3. xx. p. 283 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. anted, p. 231. Sciurus erythrceus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 11. The Chestnut-bellied Squirrel is found in Hainan, the provinces of Kwangtung and Fokien, and in Formosa. The finest Formosan skins are rather larger, with longer tails, are bright deep chestnut on the underparts, and have broad buff tips to the hair of the apical half of the tail. The chin and chest in these is for the most part not red, but of one colour with the back. As,in the Hainan and Chinese skins, the redness of the underparts is very variable in extent and intensity ; and so is the yellowness of the tail. I have specimens from South Formosa of one colour throughout, and others with more or less red ; and with a series before me I find it impossible to divide the animals from the different localities even into races. A fine specimen from North Formosa measures from snout to root of tail about 9 inches; its tail 95, including 2*5 inches of |