768 



MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



Table LIX. — Lint of specimens examined of Sciurus gerrardi. 



o 



Locality. 



From whom received. 



Collected by- 



3.100 

 3301 

 3302 



3224 

 :)C47 

 3216 

 '3(144 



225 



234 



9 



cf 



1 



V 

 V 



Xercna, Now Granada . 



do 



do 



Isthmus of Darleo 



Obispo, Panama 



do 



do 



Lieutenant Mirhler. 



do 



do 



Captain Selfridge... 

 Hassler Expedition. 



do 



do 



A. Sohott 



do 



do 



Dr. G. A. Maack .... 

 Hassler Expedition . 



do 



do 



Skin. 



..do. 



.do. 



Alcoholic. 



..do. 



.do. 



.do. 



* In Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



SCIURUS VARIABILIS Geoffroy. 

 Peruvian Squirrel. 



Sciurus variahilis I. Geoffroy, fitud. Zool. (Gue"rin's Mag. do Zool.), 1832, i, pi. iv.— Tsciiudi, Fauna 



Peruana, 1844-4(5, 155, pi. x.— Schinz, Syn. Mam. ii, 1845, 20. 

 Sciurus langsdorffi Brandt, Mdm. Acad. des. Sci. de St. P<5tersb. 6e s6r. Math. Phys. et Nat. iii, 2d pt. 1835, 



425, pi. xi.— Wagner, Suppl. Sehreber's Siiuget. iii, 1843, 184 ; Abhand. d. K.-B. Akad. d. 



Wissensch. v, 1850, 273.— Schinz, Syn. Mara, ii, 1845, 16.— Giebel, Siiuget. 1855, 653. 

 Macroxus langsdorffi Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 428. 

 Sciurus ignircnlris Natterer, MS3.— Wagner, Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1842, i, 360; Abhand. d. 



K.-B. Akad. d. Wissensch. v, 1850, 275.— Schinz, Synop. Mam. ii, 1845, 22 (from Wagner).— 



D'Orbigny & Gervais, Voy. dans l'Amer. mcrid. iv, 2d pt. 1847, 24 (Bolivia).— Giebel, 



Siiuget. 1855, 654. 

 Sciurus pijrrhonotus Natterer, MSS. — Wagner, Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1842, i, 360 ; Abhand. d. K.-B. 



Akad. d. Wissensch. v, 1850, 277— Schinz, Syuop. Mam. ii, 1845, 22 (from Wagner). 

 Sciurus slramineus Eydoux, Zool. Voy. Bonite, 1844, 37, pi. ix.— Tsciiudi, Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, 159. 

 Sciurus tricolor Poeppig, MSS.— Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, 156, pi. xi.— Wagner, Abhand. d. 



K.-B. Akad. d. Wissensch. v, 1850, 279. 

 Macroxus fuinigatus Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 428. 



Specific chars. — Size large; length of body about 11.00; of tail-vertebra 

 10.00 ; to end of hairs 13.25. Pelage short, harsh, sparse, the ventral surface 

 very thinly haired. Ears long and narrow ; tail very full and bushy. Above, 

 more or less varied with black and fulvous or red ; red often, but sometimes 

 black, being the prevalent tint; beneath, abruptly paler, yellowish-white, 

 varying from nearly white to rufous; top of the head often darker. Basal por- 

 tion of the tail usually black, or black slightly mixed with fulvous or rufous; 

 apical and middle portions irenerally washed with golden or rufous, the tail 

 being often wholly of this tint toward the tip. The hairs are generally ful- 

 vous at the extreme base, with the greater part of their length black, and 

 tipped with golden or red, the black extending basally on the apical portion 

 of the tail, but narrowing in extent till it is wholly concealed by the 



