APPENDIX. 21 



Ord's name Labradorius for this animal is apparently his own. 

 Turton does not use it, nor, so far as I can search, does anyone else. 



"COLUMBIA GRAY SQUIRREL SCIURUS ." A brief of the syn- 

 onymy of this Squirrel is as follows : 



"The large gray squirrel," Lewis & Clark, Hist. Exp., ii, 1814, 172. 



"5. griseus" , Ord, Guth. Geog., 1815, 292, (Mss. annot. in author's 

 copy: no date of entry). 



"Columbian Gray Squirrel sciurus griseus;" Ord, Jour, de Phys., 

 Ixxxvii, 1818, 150.* 



Sciurus fossor Peale, Mam. & B'ds., U. S. Expl. Exp., 1848, 55. 



A consultation of the above references shows unmistakably Ord's 

 priority in giving the Gray Squirrel of the Pacific slope a permanent 

 name. It is to be hoped the title "Columbian Gray Squirrel," will be 

 hereafter adhered to by all patriotic Americans. It is geographically 

 correct, this Squirrel having been taken not only on the Oregon side of 

 the Columbia River, but as far north in Washington as Puget Sound. I 

 have examined specimens taken in the vicinity of Olympia, now in the 

 collection of Edwards Bros., Tacoma, Washington. 



"RED-BREASTED SQUIRREL SCIURUS ." The synonymy of this 



species, is in part, as follows : 



"The small brown squirrel", Lewis & Clark, Hist. Exp., ii, 1814, 174. 



"S. rubricatus" Ord, Guth. Geog., 1815, 292, (Mss. annot. in author's 

 copy: no date of entry). 



"Red-breasted Squirrel S. rubricatus;" Ord, Jour, de Phys., Ixxxvii, 

 1818, 150. 



Sciurus douglassi Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc., Lon., 1838, 99. 



As in the case above cited, Sciurus rubricatus Ord, legitimately ante- 

 dates Bachman's name for the Red Squirrel of the West Cascade region 

 of Oregon and Washington. The citations from Lewis and Clark made 

 by Ord in Guthrie's Geography, and the consensus of opinion as to the 

 identity of their "small brown squirrel" with Sciurus douglassi Bach., 

 make it almost as plain a case as that of the Columbia Gray Squirrel. 



Sciurus rubricatus should not, in my opinion, be made subspecific of 

 S. hudsonius. 



"ROCKY MOUNTAIN GROUND SQUIRREL SCIURUS ." Its earlier 



synonymy now stands: 



"The ground squirrel," Lewis & Clark, Hist. Exp., 1814, 175. 



"5. troglodytes'' Ord, Guth. Geog., 1815, 292, (Mss. annot. in authors' 



copy: no date of entry). 



"Rocky Mountain Ground Squirrel S. troglodytus;" Ord, Jour, de 

 Phys., Ixxxvii, 1818, 150. 



* This and the two succeeding citations occur in the following passage : 



"My friend Lesueur has figured for me the greater part of the quadrupeds brought back by 

 Lewis (and Clark), or at least those whose skins were in a perfect state of preservation, the common 

 Sagger, Unus labradoricus of Liumeus; the Marmot of Louisiana, Arctomys Ludorieinna; the 

 Viverra alba; the Columbia grey Squirrel; sciurun griseus; the Red breasted Squirrel, S. rubricatus; 

 the Rocky mountain ground Squirrel, S. troglodytus, the Great Grizzly Sear, Ursua horrilnlw; I have 

 of this last, two figures from two fine individuals in the Museum." 



