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1839. Sciurus texianus Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, pt. 6, p. 86, 

 Feb. 7, 1839. ("Mexico." Specimen No. 204a, British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 

 regarded as type by Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 20, p. 47, 

 Apr. 18, 1907, and in essential agreement with specimens from coast of 

 Louisiana and Mississippi. See also, Lowery and Davis, Occ. Pap. Mus. 

 Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 9, pp. 157-161, Mar. 4, 1942; and Osgood, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 441-442, Feb. 12, 1946.) 

 1877. [Sciurus niger] var. ludovicianus J. A. Allen, in Coues and Allen, Mono- 

 graphs of North American Rodentia (U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., Rep., 

 vol. 11, Washington) , p. 718, August 1877. (Part.) 

 1884. Sciurus niger ludovicianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 



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

 Type Locality. — Red River, La. (restricted to Natchitoches Parish by Lowery 

 and Davis, loc. cit.) . Range. — Western Louisiana, eastern Texas, and southwest- 

 ern Arkansas (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana Stat. Univ. No. 13, p. 240, 

 Nov. 22, 1943) . 



Sciurus niger limit is Bairdf* 



1855. Sciurus limitis Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 7 (1854- 



1855), p. 331, April 1855. 

 1896. Sciurus ludovicianus limitis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, 



p. 149, Dec. 28, 1896. 

 1907. S[ciurus] n[iger] limitis Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 20, 



p. 45, Apr. 18, 1907. 

 Type Locality. — Devil's River, Valverde County, Tex. Range. — Central Texas, 

 north to near Red River, and from Colorado and Comanche counties west to 

 Pecos River (Lowery and Davis, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 

 No. 9, p. 171, Mar. 4, 1942). (See also Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 26, p. 355, Dec. 15, 1952.) 



Sciurus niger rufiventer E. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire* 



1803. Scirus rufiventer E. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Catalogue des mammiferes 

 du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, p. 176. 



1820. Sciurus ruber Rafinesque, Annals of nature . . . , vol. 1, p. 4. (Mis- 

 souri Territory.) 



1823. Sciurus macroura Say, in Long, Account of an expedition from Pitts- 

 burgh to the Rocky Mountains, . . . , vol. 1, p. 115. (Northeastern Kansas. 

 Not Sciurus macrourus Pennant, 1769.) 



1825. Sciurus magnicaudatus Harlan, Fauna Americana, . . . , p. 178. 

 (Substitute name for macroura Say.) 



1851. Sciurus rubicaudatus Audubon and Bachman, The viviparous quadru- 

 peds of North America, vol. 2, pi. 55; text, vol. 2, p. 30, 1851. (Illustration 

 based on specimen from Illinois; another specimen from Kentucky, possibly 

 near Mammoth Cave.) 



1851. Sciurus sayii Audubon and Bachman, The viviparous quadrupeds of 

 North America, vol. 2, pi. 89; text, vol. 2, p. 274, 1851. (Bottomlands of 

 Wabash, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers, and Michigan.) 



1907. Sciurus niger rufiventer Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 20, 

 p. 44, Apr. 18, 1907. 



