Fig. 15. SciuRus (Tamiasciurus) hudsonius. 



No. X202 Field Columlii.in Museum Coll. N.it. size. 



Genl. Char. Size small, tail short, narrow; a dorsal stripe in 

 winter, chest not rufous; under parts white vermiculated with black. 



Color. Winter Pcldi^e. Upper parts and dorsal stripe chestnut 

 rufous; sides olivaceous gray: under parts grayish white. Tail above 

 in center yellowish rufous, with a broad border and sub-terminal bar 

 of black fringed with yellowish rutous; beneath yellowish ^'rav bor- 

 dered and fringed as above. 



Summer Pelage. No dorsal stripe; upper parts yellowish rufous; 

 conspicuous black lateral line; under parts pure white; no ear tufts; 

 tail as in winter, less full. 



Measurements. Total length, 296-333; tail vertebr;e, 89-134; hind 

 foot, 43-48. 



a.—iymnicws. [Sciurus), Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, 1899, 

 p. 28. 



'/ype locality. Greenville, Maine. 



Gcogr. Distr. Eastern North America south of Labrador to 

 Northern New York, through Canada to Northern Michigan and 

 Northern Minnesota. 



Genl. Char. Size small: colors dark; beneath gray in winter, tail 

 dark. 



