128 SCIURUS. 



91. melania (Sciurus), Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 



1867, p. 425. 

 GRAY'S BLACK SQUIRREL. 



Type locality. Point Burica, Costa Rica. 



Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica, Chiriqui, Panama. (Bangs.) 2,000 

 feet altitude. 



Color. Back dark chocolate; rest of pelage and tail black. 



Measurements. Total length, 500; tail vertebrae, 260; hind foot, 

 63 ; ear, 30. 



92. boot bias (Sciurus), Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, 



P- i39- 



richardsoni Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ist Ser., x, 1842, p. 264. 

 (nee Bachman.) 



fuscovariegatus Schinz., Syn. Mamm., n, 1845, p. 15. 



hypopyrrhus Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 662. (Part. Hon- 

 duras specimens.) 

 HONDURAS SQUIRREL. 



Type locality. Honduras. San Pedro Sula ? 



Geogr. Distr. Humid coast forests of northern Honduras and 

 border of Guatemala. 



Genl. Char. Pelage thin; hair coarse; tail nearly as long as head 

 and body, narrow. 



Color. Above grizzled grayish brown, occasionally tinged with 

 reddish; chin and sides of head grayish brown; outside of arms and 

 legs, hands and feet dark grayish brown, sometimes nearly black; 

 tail at base like back, remainder above black, washed with white, 

 beneath dark grizzled brown, tinged with yellowish and bordered 

 with black and edged with white; ears with black border. 



Measurements. Total length, 524; tail vertebras, 255; hind foot, 

 63- 



a. belti (Sciurus), Nelson, Proc. Wash. Acad. Scien., i, 1899, p. 78. 

 ESCONDIDO RIVER SQUIRREL. 



Type locality. Escondido River, fifty miles above Bluefields, 

 Nicaragua. 



Geogr. *Distr. East coast region of Nicaragua, north to Segovia 

 River, Honduras. 



Genl. Char. Similar to S. boothia, but under parts rusty rufous, 

 and rusty yellowish hands and feet. 



Color. Above, including nose and base of tail, grizzled grayish 

 brown, washed with black; chin and sides of head yellowish brown 

 to brownish gray; under parts rusty rufous; outer side of arms and 

 legs suffused with rusty yellow; hands and feet rusty yellowish and 



