Color. Winter Pelage. Dorsal band ferruginous; sides and feet 

 above, olivaceous gray; under parts gray and dusky; tail above ferru- 

 ginous, fringed with same and with a subapical black band; beneath 

 tawny fringed and banded as on upper surface. 



Summer Pelage. Above dull ferruginous, brightest on upper sur- 

 face of arms and feet; olivaceous on sides and face; black lateral 

 stripe; under parts pure white. 



Measurements. Total length, 300; tail vertebra, 117; hind 

 foot, 47. 



h. — loquax. {Sciurus), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896, p. 161. 



earolinensis, Ord, (nee Gmel). Guthr. Geog., Am. ed. 1818, 11, 

 p. 292. 



Type locality. Libert}- Hill, New London, Connecticut. 



Geogr. Distr. Ontario to North Carolina in the east, and west 

 to Minnesota. 



Genl. Char. Larger than .S'. liudsonius; tail longer; dorsal stripe 

 in winter bright red; under parts not vermiculated. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Similar to .S. hudsonius; but dorsal stripe 

 brighter red varying to orange rufous; rest of upper parts more yel- 

 lowish; under parts grayish white. Black on tail narrower; hairs on 

 central part clear red. 



Summer Pelage. Usually brighter and more red; above reddish 

 yellow; feet ochraceous, beneath white. 



Measurements. Total length, 286-356; tail vertebrs, 92-146; 

 hind foot, 40-52. 



c—minnesota. (Sciurus), Allen, Am. Nat., 1899, xxxiii, p. 640. 



Type locality. Fort Snelling, Minnesota. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa? east- 

 ward to Northern Indiana. 



Genl. Char. Sizes largest of the eastern Chickarees; hind foot 

 large, colors light. 



Color. Above and sides, pale yellow and black, the tips of the 

 hairs being yellow succeeded by a black band which shows among 

 the yellow. A broad light red band from between the ears along the 

 back to end of tail vertebrae; beneath grayish white. Tail light red 

 above, bordered and tipped narrowl}' with black and fringed with pale 

 yellow; beneath pale \ellow, bordered with black and a pale yel- 

 low fringe. Forehead reddish; sides of face light gray. 



Measurements. Total length, 345-369; tail vertebra, 137-143; 

 hind foot, 47-50. 



(h—dakotensis. (Sciurus), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1894, 

 P- 325 



