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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 355 yellowish-white colour, somewhat darker on the back. Specimens were obtained at Kuala Sembrong and Batu Pahat." The Museum at Taiping contains a specimen of the dark race from Maxwell's Hill, Larut, Perak. Mr. L. Wray tells me this squirrel is known as " The Jeelrang Squirrel," " Chingkrawah Itani," or " Tupai Nanding." The Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one dark specimen from Selangor. The Raffles Museum contains a specimen from Singapore. In the Siamese Museum we had a specimen from Phrabat. 1 saw the dark race of this species in some high jungle-trees near the waterfall, Botanical Gardens, Penang, 1st January, 1896. Also on the 28th March, 1897, a little downstream of Paknam Kabin on the Bangpakong Biver, Siam, I saw one in a very tall tree : it was black above, pale fawn-colour beneath, had a very big, bushy black tail, and, so far as we could make out with field-glasses, it had tufted ears. Distribution. Nipal, Sikhim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula (Junkceylon, Penang, Perak, Dindings, Selangor, Malacca, Pahang, Johore, Singapore), Sumatra, Java, Borneo ; Celebes ? 112. SCIURUS FINLAYSONI Horsf. Finlayson's Squirrel. Sciurus ferrugineus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 375. " Kra rawk khow " (White Squirrel) of the Siamese. Horsfield (Cat. Mamm. Mus. East India Co. 1851, p. 154) records a specimen from Siam collected by Dr. G. Finlayson. This species is very numerous in parts of Siam ; the Siamese Museum contained five specimens-a red one from Bangkok, October 1893 ; a red one from Chantaboon, July 1896 ; and three white ones without recorded localities. In March 1897 I saw six of the white race in various places on the Bangpakong River between Tahkamen and Kabin, they were all in trees, usually in the jungle. In January 1898 I saw one of the red race in trees in a mangrove swamp near the mouth of the Chantaboon River. In February 1898 we saw very many near Ayuthia, especially in a grove of trees a few miles north of the town ; I did not see any on the ground, but always in the trees or clumps of tall bamboo. They were all engaged in love making, males were more numerous than females ; they made a good deal of noise, a sort of clucking, rather like the cry of some species of w oodpecker. The females have two pairs of mamma?. These Ayuthia specimens varied greatly in colour (v. 0. Thomas, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 245) ; in all the iris was dark brown, and the bare skin on hands and feet black. In August 1898 I saw one specimen on Klong Morn, a few miles from Bangkok. On the 28th August 1897, at Kosichang, I saw in the woods on Flagstaff Hill about 12 or 15 white squirrels, probably of this species, but apparently smaller and more buff (less pure white) than those I saw on the Bangpakong in March. On the 27th February, 1898, on revisiting the same woods, I saw |