17() (Tcntral ^otrx. 



America, ^ 1 found it necessary in several cases to apply to Mr. Oldtield 

 Thomas of the British Museum for information concerning the speci- 

 mens CJray had in liand when preparing his brief descriptions. Mr. 

 Thomas very Ivindly loolved up Gray's types and gave me exactly the in- 

 formation necessary to settle the status of various species. Among 

 others I asked about Gray's Macrcvus ncylectux and Mr. Thomas wrote 

 that the type of this species (No. 44.5.29.9 of the British Museum regis- 

 ter) is a common fox scjuirrel of the cinereun type and is enlered as hav- 

 ing been collected at Wilmington, Delaware, by H. Doubleday. Mr. 

 Thomas adds that 'Gray did not trouble to look out the locality in the 

 register' and thus accounts for the indefinite locality given. 



In Mr. O. Bangs' 'Review of Scjuirrels of Eastern North America'- 

 the fox squirrel of the northeastern United States is described as Sciiwt^x 

 ludovicianux vicitmK with the type from White Sulphur Springs, West 

 Virginia. Gray's Mnrro.vux neyUctus came from the midst of the range 

 given by Mr. Bangs for his *S'. I. viciiiuH and it follows therefore that the 

 fox squirrels from Northern Virginia to Southern New Vork and New 

 England should be called Sciurus ludorirUtnuK neglectus (Gray). — E. W. 

 NeUon. 



iProc. Wash. Acad. Sci., I, pp. 15-100. 1899. 



^Proc. l^iol. Soc. Washington, X, 150 (Dec. 28, 18!)ti). 



