156 MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS SCIURUS. 



cordingly set down this species as having only 20 teeth. — 

 The upper incisors, which are of a deep orange-brown colour, 

 are of moderate size ; the lower incisors a little paler than 

 those above ; head of moderate size ; whiskers longer than 

 the head ; ears short and pointed, clothed with hair on both 

 surfaces. The body seems more formed for sprightliness and 

 agility than that of the small Carolina squirrel, and in this 

 respect comes nearest to the northern grey squirrel : the tail 

 is long, and nearly as broad as that of the last-named species. 

 Colour. — The whole upper surface grey, with a distinct 

 yellow wash. The hairs which give this outward appearance 

 are greyish slate colour at their base, then very broadly annu- 

 lated with yellow, then black, and near the apex annulated 

 with yellow- white. The sides of the face and neck, the whole 

 of the inner side of the limbs, feet, and the under parts of a 

 deep golden yellow; on the cheeks and sides of the neck, how- 

 ever, the hairs are obscurely annulated with black and whitish; 

 the ears are well clothed on both surfaces with tolerably long 

 hair, of the same deep golden hue as the sides of the face ; 

 hairs of the feet mostly blackish at the root, and some are 

 obscurely tipt with black; hairs of the tail black at the root, 

 and the remaining portion of a bright rusty yellow, each hair, 

 three times in its length, annulated with black ; the under 

 surface of the tail is chiefly bright rusty yellow ; whiskers 

 longer than the head, black. 



DIMENSIONS. 



IN. LIN. 



Length of head and body 10 6 



Ditto of tail, (vertebra) 9 2 



Ditto including fur 12 



Ditto of palm to end of middle fore claw 1 7 



Ditto of heel to point of middle nail 2 7 



Ditto of fur on the back „ 7 



Height of ear posteriorly „ 5 



Breadth of tail with hair extended 8 6 



Weight H R>- 



The two specimens from which the above description was 

 taken were procured in the markets of New Orleans, by J. J. 

 Audubon, Esq. I possess no information with regard to their 

 habits. 



4. Great-tailed Squirrel. Sciurus magnicaudatus. 



Sciurus macrourus ; Say, Long's Expedition, vol. i. p. 115. 



— magnicaudatus ; Harlan's Fauna, p. 170. 



macrourus; Godmaii's Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 134. 



