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Island. The deer was kept alive by Mr. Freeman for nearly a year, 

 and according to his statement was about a year and a half old at 

 the time of shipment. It was received alive at New York, May 16, 

 1910, and there killed and prepared as a museum specimen. For 

 comparison with it, two specimens from the mainland of South 

 America have been available, representing Odocoileus gymnotis or an 

 allied form. One of these is an adult male (skin and skull) from La 

 Guaira, Venezuela, courteously loaned by the U. S. National Museum 

 through Mr. N. Hollister, Assistant Curator of Mammals ; the other, 

 a young male (skull only) frpm San Mateo de Caicara, Orinoco River 

 Venezuela, for the loan of which the Museum is indebted to Mr. F. A. 

 Lucas, Curator-in-Chief of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences. 



Sciurus nesaeus G. M. Allen. 



Two specimens of this well-marked species are in the collection 

 taken by Mr. Ferry on Margarita Island. 



Sciurus griseogena Gray. 



Two specimens, Mountains near Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela; 

 collected by N. Dearborn. These agree very closely with Gray's 

 type, with which they were compared in the British Museum. They 

 show much resemblance in general appearance to 5. hoffmanni and 

 doubtless are closely related to that species, though readily distin- 

 guishable by their more rufescent tails. Two specimens from Caracas 

 collected by Mr. Ferry may be referable to griseogena also, but their 

 general color is much paler, being scarcely brighter than in 5. que- 

 bradensis. 



Sciurus versicolor zuliae subsp. nov. 



Type from Orope, Zulia, Venezuela. No. 16,584 Field Museum of 

 Natural History. Adult male. Collected March i, 1908, by Ned 

 Dearborn. 



Characters. Similar to Sciurus versicolor of Ecuador but with 

 black instead of ferruginous predominating on the nape and inter- 

 scapular region ; feet and upper side of forelegs scarcely grizzled but 

 nearly clear ferruginous; tail more broadly black terminally; black 

 of back continuous with that of proximal part of tail ; pelage rather 

 short and harsh. Upperparts chiefly black to roots of hairs, only 

 the lower sides, the shoulders, hips, and thighs being mixed black and 

 ferruginous; interscapular region, nape and top of head mainly 



