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MONOGRAPHS OF NOttTII AMERICAN RODENTfA. 



TABLR XL. — List of xpeeimena examined of SCIHRUS ABERTI. 



II. — Species inhabiting Mexico, Central and South America. 



SCIURUS COLLLEI Richardson. 

 Collie's Squirrel. 



Sciurus collUei RicnARDSON, Zool. of the Blossom, 1839,8, pi. i.— Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



1838, 95 (without description) ; Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist, iii, 1839, 334 ; Amer. Jouru. 



Sci. and Arts, xxxvii, 1839, 307.— Wagner, Snppl. Schreber's Sauget. iii, 1845, 174— Audu- 



nos & Bachman, Quad. N. Amer. iii, 1853, pi. civ.— Baird, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 280. 

 Macroxus eollhci Gray, Ann. aud Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 421 (in part). 

 t Sciurus leporinns Audubon & Bachman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1841, 101 ; Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Pbila. viii, 1842, 314 ; Quad. N. Amer. i, 1849, 329, pi. xliii.— Baird, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 281. 

 Sciurus oeiilaius Peters, Monateb. K. P. Akad. d. Wisseusch. zu Berlin, 1863 (1864), 653. 

 Sciurus arizonensis COUES, Amer. Nat. i, 1867, 357; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1867, 134. — Coues & 



YARROW, Wheeler's Expl. and Surv. West lUOth Merid. v, Zo61. 1876, 116. 



Specific chars. — Length from the end of the nose to the base of the 

 tail about 12.50; tail to end of the vertebrae 11.00; tail to end of hairs 14.00. 

 Above, except the middle of the dorsal region, clear gray, without rufous or 

 fulvous suffusion beneath the surface ; a broad mesial band extending from 

 the head to the tail mixed yellowish-brown and black ; lower parts (usually?) 



