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calling the animals from Enterprise and Oak Lodge extimus, 

 but unfortunately they refuse to be separated from the true 

 S. carolinensis. In the museum collection there are examples 

 from E. Penn opposite Micco, and also from Tarpon Springs, 

 Enterprise and Micco, and all except the first are the same in 

 size and appearance as those procured by Mr. Surber, which 

 might indicate that the Florida form in some places is inclined 

 to be smaller than the northern. I say in some places, for 

 unfortunately for even this supposition, I find the specimen 

 from E. Penn opposite Micco, collected by Mr. F. M. Chap- 

 man, gives the measurements taken in the flesh, total length, 

 490; tail vertebrae, 260; thus equaling the total length of Mr. 

 Surber's largest example from North Carolina. It would seem 

 from these facts very doubtful if there was more than one form 

 of gray squirrel in Florida, for none could possibly imagine that 

 two races so closely allied as these must be, would be found in 

 the same State. 



Regarding some of these examples, Mr. Surber writes: " The 

 specimen taken at Riceboro, Ga. , is small, and I was told 

 that ail taken in that vicinity are like it." (This measures, total 

 length, 450; tail vertebrae, 215). "In the hardwood hummocks, 

 both at New Berlin and Enterprise, squirrels of probably the 

 small Florida form are fairly common, but they are unknown in 

 the pine woods, being altogether confined to the heavy swamps 

 and hummocks in both Florida and Georgia. I was told they 

 had become very rare about Micco during the past two or three 

 years." 



SCIUROPTERUS. 

 Sciuropterus volans. 



Mus volans. Linn. Syst. Nat., i, 1776, p. 85. 



Eight examples: 7, Calhoun Falls, South Carolina; i, St. 

 Mary's, Georgia. 



Three of the Calhoun Falls specimens have the under side of 

 the tail inclined to a pinkish color, very similar to one of the 

 Enterprise skins supposed to be 6". v. querceti and if the locality 

 was unknown they would probably be referred to that species by 

 most systematists. It is rather far north, however, to look for a 

 gradation into the Florida subspecies, and so we can only 

 regard them as deeply colored individuals of S. rolans. 



