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Show 354 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. ^> 108. SCIUROPTERUS DAVISONI Thomas. Davison's Flying- Squirrel. 0. Thomas (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 74, pi. vi.) described this species from a specimen collected in Malacca by Davison. 109. SCIUROPTERUS LEPIDUS Horsf. In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there is a Squirrel from Selangor, which Mr. A. L. Butler tells me is of this species. 110. SCIUROPTERUS GENIBARBIS (Horsf.). Cantor (p. 45) records this species from the Malay Peninsula, and gives the following dimensions of a male : - Head and body 191 mm. 7| inches. Tail 178 „ 7 Distribution. Malay Peninsula, Java. 111. RATUFA BICOLOR Sparrm. The Large Malay Squirrel. Sciurus bicolor, Cantor, p. 38 ; Blanford, Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 373. Cantor says the dark variety is called by the Malays of the Peninsula " Chingkrawah etam," and is very numerous in the forests and hills of Penang and the Malay Peninsula; the light variety is called " Chingkrawah "or " Chingkrawah puteh," and occurs in Penang. O. Thomas (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 75) records twelve specimens from the Malay Peninsula, from the following localities :-two from Salanga, Junkceylon ; one from the Dindings ; four from Klang, Selangor; one from Malacca ; one from Jaffaria, Johore; and three from Gunong Pulai, Johore. He says: " With the exception of three or four of the cream-coloured examples so common in this species, all these specimens represent the typical black and yellow S. bicolor." W . L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 9) records specimens from Perak, Malacca, and Singapore. Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 58) says : " Sciurus bicolor Sparr. This very variable Squirrel is, in Pahang, usually of a dirty yellowish-white colour, almost tawny on the back. Seen far up the Taban River, and at Pulau Taw ar." Also (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 95) he writes :-" S. bicolor is a strictly arboreal squirrel, which lives in the tops of the higher trees in the thick jungles. It is very variable in colour. The commonest form in Singapore is black with a cream-coloured belly. In the Peninsula it is usually entirely cream-coloured. It is remarkably docile, but much less active than the smaller species. WThen eating, this species sits transversely on a bough, grasping it with its hind feet, the head and body hanging down on one side and the tail on the other. It eats fruits of different kinds, and also buds and leaves." H. J. Kelsall (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 2<5, Jan. 1894, p. 16) says :- "This squirrel, which is common in Johor, is here of a dirty |
