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1758. [Sciurus] cinereus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 64 (in 



part; gray phase of niger). 

 1778. [Sciurus] vulpinus Gmelin, Caroli a Linne systema naturae . . ., ed. 13, 

 vol. 1, p. 147. (Based on fox squirrel of Lawson and cat squirrel of 

 Pennant.) 

 1802. Sciurus capistratus Bosc, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris No. 67 (vol. 3, No. 7) , 



p. 145, September-October, 1802. (Charleston, S. C.) 

 1884. Sciurus niger niger True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 595, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 Type Locality. — Probably southern South Carolina. Range. — Southern Vir- 

 ginia (Handley and Patton, Wild mammals of Virginia, p. 154, 1947) south to 

 northern Florida (Sherman, Proc. Florida Acad. Sci., vol. 1 (1936), p. 114, 

 1937) , and southeastern Alabama. 



Sciurus niger avicennia A. H. Howellf * 



1919. Sciurus niger avicennia A. H. Howell, Journ. Mamm., vol. 1, No. 1, 

 p. 37, Nov. 28, 1919. 



Type Locality. — Everglades, Collier County, Fla. Range. — Pine and cypress 

 timbered tracts and mangrove swamps, from Marco Pass, Collier County, to 

 Cape Sable and around southern end of peninsula to shore of Biscayne Bay, Dade 

 County, on east coast. 



Sciurus niger hachmani Lowery and Davis* 



1942. Sciurus niger bachmani Lowery and Davis, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 



Louisiana State Univ. No. 9, p. 156, Mar. 4, 1942. (Regarded as a synonym 



of texianus by Osgood, Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 4, p. 442, Feb. 12, 1946.) 



Type Locality. — Ten miles northwest of Enon, Washington Parish, La. 



Range. — Northern Georgia (possibly a small portion of western South Carolina), 



all of Alabama (except southeastern part) , eastern Tennessee, Mississippi (except 



extreme western part), and eastern Louisiana east of Mississippi River and 



north of Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain. 



Sciurus niger subauratus Bachman* 



1839. Sciurus subauratus Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, pt. 6, p. 87, 



Feb. 7, 1839. 

 1839. Sciurus auduboni Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, pt. 6, p. 97, 



Feb. 7. 1839. (New Orleans; melanistic specimen of subauratus.) 

 1942. Sciurus niger subauratus LoAvery and Davis, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 



Louisiana State Univ. No. 9, p. 166, Mar. 4, 1942. 

 Type Locality. — Iberville Parish, La. (restricted by Lowery and Davis, loc. 

 cit.) . Range. — Northeastern, central-eastern, and south-central Louisiana where 

 it is confined almost entirely to alluvial lands of Mississippi, Tensas, Ouachita, 

 and Atchafalaya River systems (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State 

 Univ. No. 13, p. 240, Nov. 22, 1943) ; southeastern Arkansas and Yazoo River 

 delta of northwestern Mississippi (Lowery and Davis, loc. cit.) . 



Sciurus niger ludovicianus Custis* 



1806. Sciurus ludovicianus Custis, Philadelphia Med. Phys. Journ., vol. 2, 

 pt. 2, p. 47. 



