44 Osgood Unrecognized and Misapplied Names. 



regarding the specimen, as follows : ' " Of this animal I have no further 

 knowledge than that it was killed on the North-west coast, near Sitka, 

 where it is said to be common ; it was given to me by my friend W. F. 

 Tolmie, Esq., surgeon of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company." ' A more 

 exact statement of locality is made by Townsend himself in a signed note 

 in the appendix to his narrative (supra cit), thus : " It was presented to me 

 by William Frasee Tolmie, Esq., surgeon of the Honorable Hudson's- 

 Bay Company, by whom it was captured near Fort McLaughlin, on the 

 N. W. coast of America." As the distribution of the two forms of red 

 squirrel occurring in the general region of Fort McLaughlin* is peculiar, 

 the proper application of the name lanuginosus can not be determined 

 without specimens from the exact type locality. River Inlet, B. C. is the 

 locality nearest the site of Fort McLaughlin from which specimens are at 

 hand and these have been referred by Dr. Allen (1. c.) to h. cascadensis. 

 The type itself (No. 295, Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila.), being albinistic, 

 is not subspecifically identifiable, but the general color of the upperparts 

 seems to indicate at least one of the western forms of the group. The 

 underparts are entirely white and the anterior part of the head and the tail 

 have white or whitish predominating. Dr. Allen in his Revision of the 

 Chickarees (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, p. 283, 1898) mentions the 

 "marked tendency to albinism on the ventral surface in the whole S.doug- 

 lasii group." A specimen from the range of S. d. cascadensis (No. 92,755, 

 Trout Lake, Wash.), showing almost the same degree of albinism as the 

 type of lanuginosus, is in the Biological Survey Collection. 



Sciurus niger rufiventer Geoffroy. 



Sciurus rufiventer Geoff., Cat. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., p. 176, 1803. 



Sciurus ludovicianus Custis, Barton's Med. and Phys. Jour., II, p. 47, 1806 

 Red River, Louisiana. 



Sciurus ruber Rafinesque, Annals of Nature, p. 4, 1820 " Missouri Terri 

 tory." 



Sciurus macroura Say, Long's Exped. to Rocky Mts., I, p. 115, 1823 north 

 eastern Kansas not Sciurus macrourus Erxleben 1777. 



Sciurus magnicaudatus Harlan, Fauna Americana, p. 178, 1825 new name 

 for S. macroura Say, preoccupied. 



? Sciurus subauratus Bachman, supra cit., pp. 87-88, 1838 New Orleans 

 market. 



? Sciurus auduboni Bachman, supra cit., p. 97, 1838 New Orleans market. 



Sciurus occidentalis Aud. and Bach., Proc., Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., pp. 102- 

 103, 1841. 



Sciurus rubicaudatus Aud. and Bach., Quad. N. Am., II, pp. 30-31, pi. LV, 

 1851 Illinois. 



Sciurus sayii Aud. and Bach., Quad. N. Am., II, pp. 274-276, pi. LXXXIX, 

 1851 new name for S. macroura Say. 



*Fort McLaughlin is shown on a map published with the ".History of California, 

 Oregon, and the other countries on the Northwest Coast of America, by Robert Greenhow, 

 2d ed., Boston, 1845." On this map, it is situated on the north end of an unnamed 

 island corresponding in position to Hunter Island of modern maps, being the second 

 island of importance on the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island. 



