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. 

 Tolraie, 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 who^m 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 S. h. cascadensis. 

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

 is not subspecifically identitiable, 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. douy- 

 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 — "]\Iissouri 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 duduboni Bachman, supra cit., p. 97, 1838 — New Orlean.s 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 KobertGreenhow, 

 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 mai)s, being the second 

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



