"2.-J.-J, BULLETIN OF THE 



to Dr. Bachman. There is a. specimen in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology from Warwick, and others from Upton, Maine, and llali- 

 daysburg, Pennsylvania. 



50. Condylura cristata Desmorest. (C. longicauda Desm. 

 and ('. macroura Harlan of Emmons's Rep., pp. 17, 18.) Star-nosld 

 Mole. Common, hut apparently more so in some parts of the State 

 than in others. At Springfield this and Scalops aquaticus are ahout 

 equally numerous, hut in the eastern part of the State the present spe- 

 cies seems to many times outnumber the other. From considerable 

 variations in the length and size of the tail presented by different in- 

 dividual-;, it was formerly incorrectly supposed that two species of Con- 

 dylura existed in Massachusetts, and the eastern parts of the United 

 Slates generally. The thickening of the tail appears to be connected 

 with the rutting season. 



SCIURID^. 



51. Sciurus cinereus Linn. (?"S. rulpinus Gmo\." Emmons's 

 Rep., p. GG.) Fox Squirrel. Rare in most parts of the State. 



• r >2. Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin. ("S.leucotis Gapper"and 

 u S. niger Linn.," Emmons's Rep., pp. GG, G7. Macroxus* carolinen- 

 sis Gray.) Gray Squirrel. Generally distributed, but much more 

 common in some sections than in others, being most numerous where 

 the forests have been least disturbed. Generally they are of the gray 

 type, but the black variety is quite prevalent at some localities. In 

 Wayne County, New York (on the south shore of Lake Ontario), I 

 have found the black variety to be the most common, with every gra- 

 dation between the two. All those observed that were pure glossy 

 black seemed to be very old individuals, while the young generally pre- 

 sented a mixture of tawny, gray, and black, the hairs being annulated 



* Dr. J. E. Cray, in his several Synopses of the Asiatic, African, and American Squir- 

 rels (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser. Vol. XX, 1867), has recently divided the old ge- 

 rms Sdurns into several genera. Sciurus, as restricted by him, and Macroxus contain all 

 the American species, by far the larger part of which are placed in Macroxus. Only 

 the group to which S. hitdsonins belongs, the »S. cinereus or Northern fox squirrel, and 

 Abert's squirrel from New Mexico (called by Gray S. " Albertii " = S. Abertii Wood- 

 liouse), remain in the genus Sciurus as restricted by Dr. Gray. 



