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Show 572 MESSRS. W. E. DE WINTON AND F. W. STYAN [May 2, 2. On Chinese Mammals, principally from Western Sechuen. By W . E. D E WINTON, F.Z.S. Writh Notes on Chinese Squirrels. By F. W . STYAN, F.Z.S. [Eeceived March 14, 1899.] (Plates XXXI. & XXXII.) In 'The Ibis' of April for this year (1899, p. 289) will be found, in a paper on " Birds from West China," a condensed account of a collecting-trip made by two native collectors employed by Mr. F. W . Styan, F.Z.S. The mammals obtained on this trip have been put into m y hands for description ; Mr. Styan having himself written the part on the Squirrels, after looking over the specimens from that country in the Paris Museum. The British Museum is much indebted to Mr. Styan for many interesting specimens in different branches of natural history, and I have now to record the gift of a fine series of Chinese Squirrels. Other small mammals collected in China in well-known localities, such as have been mentioned in recently published accounts, are not referred to in this paper. Western Sechuen has been visited by very few collectors, and the fauna is principally known from collections brought home by Pere David, and more recently by Berezowski; but it will be seen that these two collectors did not exhaust the store of peculiar local forms. The localities mentioned w ill be more easily traced by referring to Mr. Styan's own paper in ' The Ibis.' EHINOPITHECUS ROXELLANCE. (Plate XXXI.) Semnopilhecus roxtllance, M.-Edw. C. E . Acad. Sci. 1870, t. lxx. p. 341. Rhinopithecus roxellance, M.-Edw. Eech. M a m m . p. 233, pis. 36, 37 (1874). 8 , 2 • Yang-liu-pa, N . W . Sechuen. The female agrees fairly well with the figures given by M . Milne- Edwards. The chief differences are that the whole forehead is uniformly coloured bright orange ; there are no light patches over the eyes; the ears are covered with cream-coloured hair; the front of the face beneath the eyes is clothed with the same orange-coloured hair as the rest of the face, so that only the nose and the rings round the eyes are naked ; the upper lip has a few projecting white hairs. Tbe hands are pale yellow, the dark colour ending on the forearm. The male (figured, Plate XXXI.), which is a very aged animal, differs principally from the female in the brighter and more rufous tint in the colour of its fur. The face is not so well clothed with fur, the hair beneath the eyes being scant and adpressed and not |