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belly and inside of the legs nearly pure red ; 

 whiskers black, and as long as the head; ears 

 reddish, and covered with short hairs ; extremities 

 of the feet of a blackish-brown ; tail brownish at 

 base, blackish beneath and at the extremity, red- 

 dish on the middle upper surface. 



Inhabit southern states. The above description 

 is taken from a specimen in the Philadelphia 

 Museum, brought from near New Orleans, and is, 

 without doubt, distinct from the Gray Squirrel. 



Species. 



4. Sciiirtts riiger, Linn. Erxleb. Screb. tab. 215. 

 Sciurus mexicamis^ Hernandez, Mex. p. 582. fig. 

 2. Black Squirrel, Catesby, Carrol, vol. ii. p. 73. 

 Bartram, Voy. in North Amer. vol. ii. p. 31. (En- 

 cycl. pi. 74. fig. 2.) 



Char. Essent. Colour deep black above, 

 brownish-black beneath ; ears black and not pen- 

 cilled with hair; tail black. 



Dimensions. Total length about eight inches, 

 tail proportionably shorter than that of the gray 

 squirrel. 



Description. Top of the head, back, tail, and 

 extremities of the feet, covered with hair of a deep 

 black colour, without any mixture of red or fawn 

 colour; throat, breast, and belly, of a black ap- 

 proaching to a brown colour ; hair of the flanks 

 black, and having each a brown ring, which di- 

 minishes about these parts the intensity of the 



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