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Type Locality. — Mississippi Valley, exact locality not known, but probably be- 

 tween southern Illinois and central Tennessee (Osgood, loc. cit.). Range. — 

 Mississippi Valley from western Tennessee, northern Arkansas (Lowery and 

 Davis, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 9, p. 163, Mar. 4, 1942), 

 and northeastern Texas (Strecker and Williams, Journ. Mamm., vol. 10, No. 3 

 p. 259, Aug. 10, 1929), north through eastern Oklahoma (Blair, Amer. Midi. 

 Nat., vol. 22, p. 113, July 1939), Kansas west to, or beyond, long. 90° W. (Black, 

 Kansas State Board Agric. Thirtieth Biennial Rep., 1935-1936, p. 179, 1937), 

 Nebraska west to long. 98° W. (Swenk, Studies Zool. Lab. Univ. Nebraska No. 89, 

 p. 24, September 1908), and eastern South Dakota to Clearwater and Pine 

 Counties, Minnesota (Swanson, Minnesota Dept. Conserv. Techn. Bull. 2, p. 80, 

 1945), northwestern Wisconsin (Schorger, Journ. Mamm., vol. 28, No. 4, p. 401, 

 Dec. 8, 1947), Lower Peninsula of Michigan (Burt, Mammals of Michigan, 

 p. 194, 1946), northern Ohio (Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 6, p. 139, Sept. 11, 1942) , and Chautauqua County in west- 

 ern New York (Hamilton, The mammals of eastern United States, . . . , p. 233, 

 1943). 



Sciurus niger vicinus Bangs* 



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

 p. 150, Dec. 28, 1896. 



1944. Sciurus niger vicinus E. L. Poole, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, p. 316, 

 Sept. 8, 1944. 



Type Locality. — White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W. Va. 

 Range. — Formerly most of Connecticut, except coniferous forests of highlands in 

 northeast and northwest (Goodwin, Connecticut Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 53 

 (1935), p. 110, Mar. 24, 1936) ; formerly from central New York (Bangs, loc. 

 cit.) south through south-central Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West 

 Virginia, western Virginia (Handley and Patton, Wild mammals of Virginia, 

 p. 155, 1947), and in Appalachian Mountains to western North Carolina (Bangs, 

 loc cit.). Introduced at Boise, Idaho (Marshall, Journ. Mamm., vol. 22, No. 1, 

 p. 86, Feb. 14, 1941). 



Sciurus niger neglectus (Gray) * 



1867. Macroxus neglectus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 425, 



December 1867. 

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



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

 1900. Sciurus ludovicianus neglectus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 13, p. 170, Oct. 31, 1900. (Part.) 

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



20, p. 45, Apr. 18, 1907. (Part.) 

 1920. Sciurus niger bryanti H. H. Bailey, Bailey Mus. Libr. Nat. Hist., Newport 



News, Va., Bull. No. 1 [p. 1], Aug. 1, 1920. (Received in Washington, 



June 1923. Dorchester County, Md. Regarded by E. L. Poole, Journ. 



Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, p. 316, Sept. 8, 1944, as identical with neglectus.) 

 Type Locality. — Wilmington, Newcastle County, Del. (see Nelson, loc. cit.). 

 Range. — East of Chesapeake Bay in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia; formerly 

 in Chester County, Del., and Lancaster County, Pa. (E. L. Poole, loc. cit.). 



