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FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM ZOOLOGY, VOL. Ill 



MR. BANGS' FLORIDA AND GEORGIA SPECIMENS. 

 D. r. pigra. 



Unless, therefore, locality is to be regarded as a character, I fail 

 to find any that are recognizable in any example of so-called 

 pigra that would warrant a separation from the typical form. 



Two of Mr. Surber's examples, one from Enterprise and one 

 from Gainesville, are black, and if their localities were unknown 

 they might easily be taken for D. marsupialis ex Mexico. 

 In regard to this peculiarity, -Mr. Surber writes, "from all 

 I can learn there seem to be two patterns of coloration among 

 opossums in this State (Florida), the one frequenting the open 

 pine woods and prairies being of a light grayish hue, like 

 normal specimens found farther north, while those found in the 

 swamps and low hummocks are very dark in color, like the one I 

 got at Gainesville. Apparently they are subject to a wide range 

 of color variation, and also size." 



ORDER RODENTIA. 

 FAM. SCIURID.E. 



SCIURUS. 



Sciurus niger. 



Sciurus niger. Linn. Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 64. 



Three specimens: i, Riceboro, Georgia; 2, New Berlin, 

 Florida. 



While in some portions of Florida the fox squirrel is said to 

 be not uncommon, as in the district about Citronelle on the 



