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21. Scalops aquaticus Fischer. Shrew Mole. 

 Several specimens of this species from Indian River and Jacksonville, 

 Florida, are mentioned by Professor Baird in his list of the specimens 

 of this species in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, in his 

 Report on North American Mammals. Mr. Boardman has also 

 informed me that it is not uncommon there. 



SCIURIDJE. 



22. Sciurus niger Linne. Southern Fox Squirrel. 



Sciurus niger JjINNE, Syst. Nat., I, 64, 1758. 

 Sciurus vulpinus Gmel., Syst. Nat., I, 147, 1788 

 Sciurus vulpinus <t syn. Baird, Main. N. Am., 246, 1857. 



Common. Confined chiefly to the pine woods. Extremely variable 

 in general color, the variations in this respect ranging from pale 

 yellowish gray to black. The specific name niger of Linne is the one 

 which has unquestionably the priority, as observed by Professor Baird, 

 and its applying only to a single stage of coloration, inasmuch as it is 

 a common one, does not seem to be sufficient reason for rejecting it, 

 since it is as applicable as any name referring to its color can be, and 

 is not likely to seriously mislead.* 



23. Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin. Gray Squirrel. 



Sciurus carolinensis G.mel., Syst. Nat., L, 143, 1788. — Baird, Mam. N. Am., 



256, 1857. 

 " Sciurus anereus Schreber, Saugeth., IV, 766, pi. ccxiii, 1792." 

 Sciurus niger Godman, Am. Nat. Hist., II, 133, 1826. 

 Sciurus leucotis Gapper, Zool. Journ., V, 2(>G, \>\. xxi, 1830. 



Exceedingly abundant, and generally very tame. Two of my party 

 shut a dozen one evening in less than half an hour at Ilawkinsville. 

 Tiny are considerably smaller than at the North, and also diner some- 

 what in color from northern specimens, the gray being more suffused 

 with brownish than in the gray northern type. 



The fifty or sixty specimens carefully examined were quite uniform 

 in color and generally so in size. The yellowish-brown patch on the 

 back usually presenl in the gray type of this species was of greater 

 extent and Less distinctly defined than in northern examples. No 



* See Baird, W.rtli American Mammals, p. 218. 



