SCIURIDJ3— SUIURUS CAUOLINENSIS VAR. LEUCOTtS. 701 



Sciurus vulpiuua DeKay, N. V. Zool. i, 184-2, 59 (winter pelage). 



Sciurus migratorius Audubon & Bachman, Quad. N. Amer. i, 18-19, '205, pi. xxxv.— Krnnicott, U. S. Pat- 

 ent Office Eep. Agricul. for 1856, 1857, 62, pi. vi. — Adams, Field ami Fores;t Rambles, 1873, 

 296 (western and southwestern parts of New Brunswick). 



Sciurus earolinensis Godman, Amfer. Nat. Hist, ii, 1826, 131.— Doughty, Cab. Nat. Hist, ii, 1832, 240, pi. 

 xxi.— Baird, Mam. N. Amer., 1857, 256, pi. xlv, fig. 2 (skull) (in part; "larger northern" 

 and "black and dusky" varieties only).— Thomas, Trans. 111. State Agricult. Soc. iv, I860, 

 656.— Hall, Canad. Nat. and Geol. 1861, 301— Hayden, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. xii, 

 1863,144. — Allen, Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool. i, 1869,222 (Massachusetts); Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. xiii. 1870, 188 (Iowa).— Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 426 (vars. 

 "major" el " niger"). 



Sciurus earolinensis var. leucotis Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvii, 1874, 287. 



tMacroxus melania Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 425. 



Var. CAROLINENSIS. 

 Southern Gray Squirrel. 



Sciurus earolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 148 (based on Pennant's Lesser Gray Squirrel from 

 Carolina).— M'Murtrie, M'Murtrie's Cuvier (Am. ed.) i, 1831, 333.— Bachman, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Loud. 1838, 94; Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist, iii, 1839, 330; Amer. Journ. Sci. and 

 Arts, xxxvii, 1839, 304.— Schinz, Synop. Mam. ii, 1845, 8.— Audubon & Bachman, Quad. N. 

 Amer. i, 1849, 55, pi. vii. — ?Woodhouse, Sitgreaves's Col. and Zuni Riv. Exped. 1853, 52 

 (Ind. Ter. and Texas).— Baird, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 256 (" small southern variety " only).— 

 Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1861. 3 (Mexico).— Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1861, 

 282 (Guatemala).— Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 42(5 (var. "minor "only).— 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. ii, 1871. 176 (Florida).— Maynard, Bull. Essex Inst, iv, 1872, 

 145 (Florida). 



Sciurus earolinensis f f, Baird, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 263 (Santa Catarina, New Loon, Mex.) 



Sciurus earolinensis var. earolinensis Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 1874, 287. 



Sciurus fuliginosus Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1838, 96 (dusky phase) ; Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, iii, 1839, 300.— Wagner, Suppl. Schreber's Siiuget. iii, 1842, 176— Schinz, Synop. Mam. 

 ii, 1845, 9.— Audubon & Bachman, Quad. N. Amer. iii, 1853, 240, pi. cxlix, fig. 2. 



f Sciurus deppei Peters, Monatsb. Konigl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863 (1864), 654. 



Lesser Gray Squirrel, Pennant, Synop. Quad. 1771, 283. 



JScureuil gris de la Carolina, F. Cuvier, Hist, des Mamm.'i, livr. — , 1819 (plate and text). 



Var. leucotis. 



Northern Gray Squirrel. 

 Varietal chars. — Length of body about 10.50 inches, varying from 9 

 to 11.50; tail-vertebrse 8, varying from 7 to 9; tail to end of hairs 11.50, 

 varying from about 10 to 12.50. Above, whitish-gray, with a dirsal area and 

 a lateral line brownish-yellow, and with a more or less strong fulvous suffu- 

 sion beneath the surface of the pelage, generally more or less apparent through 

 the surface-tints; beneath, white. Varies through dusky and annulated 

 phases to intense glossy black ; rarely, in the dusky phases, with areas of 

 yellowish-brown below, more or less strongly annulated with black. Tail 

 with the hairs yellowish-brown basally, with narrow black annulations, and a 

 broad, conspicuous, subterminal black bar, the hairs all broadly tipped with 

 white, giving a white surface-tint, through which the yellowish-brown and 

 black bars are seen beneath. Ears not tufted, with or without a conspicuous 

 woolly tuft of white at the base posteriorly. 



