SCICriilDJE— SCJURTJS LEUCOPS. 



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Table XLIX. — List of specimens examined of SCIURUS aureigaster. 



* Dusky. 



SCIURUS LEUCOPS (Gray) Allen. 

 Golden-bellied Squirrel. 



Sciurus aurcogasler Geoffroy, Voyage de la Venus, Zool. 1855, 156, pis. x, xi (not of F. Cuvier, 1829). 

 f Sciurus hypoxanthus Lichtenstein, MS. (see Geoffroy, 1. c. 158). 

 Alucroxns griseoflavus Gray, Ann. and Slag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 427. 

 Macroxus leucops Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 427. 



Specific chars. — Length of body and head about 12.50; tail-vertebrae 

 9.75 ; tail with hairs 12.00 to 13.00, about equal to the length of the head and 

 body, but narrow. Pelage full and soft. Above, gray, varying from whitish- 

 gray to dark iron-gray, generally with a large patch of yellowish-rusty on the 

 nape and a large area of the same color on the rump; beneath, pure white, 

 yellowish-white, or deep golden-yellow. Pelage of the whole upper surface 

 generally with a broad subtenninal band of yellowish or golden, sometimes 

 showing faintly through the surface. 



Of three specimens from Tehuantepec, Mexico, two are white below, 

 faintly stained with yellow, while the other has the lower parts deep orange- 

 yellow. One (No. 9432) has the nape-patch chestnut and sharply defined ; 

 the rump-patch is faintly developed. In another (No. 9434), the nape-patch 



is well defined but paler, and the rump-patch is also only faintly indicated. 

 48 m 



