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iMONOC.KAI'US OF NOKTU AMERICAN KODENTIA. 



TABLE XLIV. — List of specimens examined of Sciurus BOOTni.fi. 



UJ6* 

 9036 

 11411 

 11413 

 11413 

 11414 

 11417 

 8414 

 11701 

 11703 

 12044 

 13046 

 12047 

 1-204- 

 12049 

 12054 

 LI364 

 1 1 1 19 

 11120 

 1 1 121 

 8,'Oli 



45 



88 

 87 

 102 

 91 



Locality. 



Costa Rioa 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



San .Jnan 



West Coast of Central America . 



do 



do 



Nicaragua 



From whom received. 



J. C. Zdedon 



do 



do 



J. Carmiol 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Prof. Wm. Gaub 



Talmanca Expedition . 

 do 



.do . 

 .do. 

 .do . 

 .do. 



Dr. A. von Frantzius 



Capt. J. M. Dow 



do 



do 



James rTepburne 



Collected by- 



J.C. Zelednn 



do 



do 



J. Carmiol 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Prof. Win. Gabb . 

 do 



.do. 

 .do . 

 .do . 



do 



do. 



Dr. A. von Frantzius 



Capt. J. M. Dow 



do 



do 



James Hepburne 



Skin, 

 .do. 



do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 .do. 

 ..do. 



do. 



do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 

 .do. 

 ..do. 

 ..do. 



do. 

 ..do. 



do. 

 ..do. 



SCIURUS HYPOPYRRIIUS Wagler. 



Fire-Bellied Squirrel. 



Sciurua liypopyrrhus Wagler, Isis, 1831, 510.— "Wagner, Miiuchen. gel. Anzeig. vii, 20"; Suppl. Schre- 



ber's Sauget. iii, 1843, 167, pi ccxiii C— Schixz, Syrj. Mam. ii, 1845, 20.— Baird, Maui. N. Ainer. 



1857, 282.— De Saussure, Rev. et Mag. do Zool. 1861, 4. 

 Sciurua nigrescent Behhett, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud, i, 1833, 41 (a melanistic form).— Bachman, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Loud, vi, 1838, 96; Cbarles worth's Mag. Nit. Hist, iii, 1839, 334; Silliman's Aincr. 



Jour. Sci. and Arts, xxxvii, 1839, 306.— Wagner, Suppl. Schreber's Sanget. iii, 1843, 174.— 



Sciiinz, Synop. Mam. ii, 1845, 19.— Audubon & Bachman, Quad. N. Am. iii, 1854, 74, pi. 



cxvii. — Baird, Mam. N. Am. 1857,280. 

 Murrains nigrescent Ghat, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 424. 



Sciurua variegatoides Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1839, 117 ; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, v, 1840, 62. 

 Sciurus griscocaudatiis Gray, Zool. Voy. Sulpbur, 1844, 34, pi. xiii, fig. 2 (animal), and pi. xviii, figs. 7-12 



(skull and teeth). 

 Sciurua dorsalis Gray, Proc. Zool. S c, Loud. 1848, 138, pi. vii (white, with a broad black dorsal stripe).— 



Scbater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1870, 670. 

 Macroxus colliai " var. t " GRAY, Auu. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 421. 

 Macroxus dorsalis Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 422. 

 Macroxus maurus (iit.vv, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 425 (Oaxaca, Mex.). 

 Macroxua melanin Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 425. 



Specific chars. — Size large; form rather slender; ears high and nar- 

 row; tail very long, the tail-vertebra alone equalling the length of the head 

 and body. Length of body 10.50 to 12.50; tail-vertebrae the same; tail to 



