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Sciurus hudsonicus ventorum AIKmi. liiological Survey colloctioii. 

 Bull. Amer. ^Vlns. Nat. Hist., X, j.p. 268-264, July 22, 1.S98. 

 6«)080. Skin and skull. Adult male (not female, as in orioinal 

 description). South Pass City, Wyoming. Septeinlx'i- (I, 1893. 

 Collected by V. Bailey. Original muuber 4305. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfec-t, except for numerous small 

 shot perforations and absence of one molar. 



Sciurus deppei vivax Nelson. Biological Survey collection. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wa.sh., XIV, pp. 131-132, August 9, 1901. 

 1(»7932. Skin and skull. Adult female. Apazote, Campeche, Mexico. 

 January 8, 1901. Collected by E. A. Goldman. Original number 

 11-1:29. ' 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull i)erfect. 



Sciurus carolinensis yucatanensis Allen. Cotype. 



Monographs North American Rodentia, p. 705, August, 1877. 

 = Sciurus yucatanensis (Allen). See Elliot, Field Columbian ]Mus., Zool. St-r., f, 

 p. 80, :\Iay, 1896. 



AiVa- Skin and skull. Adult female. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. 

 March 3, 1865. Collected by Dr. A. Schott, "Comision cientitica 

 de Yucatan, Jose Salagar Llarregui."' Original number 229. Skin 

 catalogued May 2, 1866; skull, September 20, 1898. 



The specimen has been remade into a modern study skin and is in good con- 

 dition; skull in fair condition, right zygoma lacking, and a considerable hole 

 above the foramen magnum as well as breaks about the optic foramina. 



In the original descrijjtion Dr. J. A. Allen speaks of four specimens, all of the 

 same date, locality, and collector as the al)ove. In the taljle of measurements, on 

 page 711, three of them are referred to by number, namely, 8502, 8503, and 8505, 

 which should be regarded as cotypes. Unfortunately, Nos. S502 and 8505 Can 

 not be found. His fourth specimen, not referred to by number and hence 

 regarded as a paratype, is in good condition and in the collection. It is about 

 half or two-thirds grown. 



Genus FU N AMBU LUS. 



Funambulus castaneus ^Miller. 



I'roc. Wash. Acad. Sci., II, p. 217, August 20, 1900. 

 li»ir)96. Skin and skull. Lnmature male. Pulo Siantan, Anamba 

 Islands, South China Sea. September 10, 1899. Collected by Dr. 

 \V. L. Abbott. Catalogued January 19, 1900. 

 Fairly well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Funambulus obscurus Miller. 



Smithsonian Misccll. Coll., XLV, No. 1420, p. 2.3, November (>, 1903. 

 121610. Skin and skull. Adult female. South Pagi Island, otf west 

 coast of Sumatra. Nov«>mber 22, 1902. Collected by Dr. ^y . L. 

 Abbott. Original number 2086. Catalogued July 31, 1903. 

 Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



