MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



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streams in the region around Fork Clark, Kinney County. Texas. 

 Pecan nuts and acorns were its principal food. 



Record and measurements of 21 specimens of Sciurus ruflventer texianus. 



Museum 

 numbers. 



Skull. 



63046 

 U12710 



63047 

 O12707 



63048 



63049 



al2709 



•ML'TON 



63050 



"1271(1 

 63051 

 63052 

 n5646 



al2703 

 63054 



Q12706 

 63053 



212705 



63048 



tii'.ill'.i 



63051 

 63052 

 1637 

 10996 

 (13051 

 L0999 

 63053 

 10998 



Localil y. 



Fori Clark, Kinney County, Texas. 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Kiekapoo Springs, Mason Countv, 



Texas. 



....do 



....do 



Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



L892. 

 Dee. 23 



L893 

 Jan. 17 

 Jan. 29 

 Feb. ii 

 Feb. 15 



...do... 

 ...do... 



Mar. Id 

 Apr. 8 

 Apr. 9 

 Apr. 14 

 Apr. 21 

 ....do ... 

 Apr. 26 

 May 22 



....do... 

 ...do... 

 ....do... 

 ....do... 



.do . 



....do 



1897. 

 Dec. 1 



1898. 

 May 14 



mm. 



[90 



145 



195 



475 

 490 

 475 



503 

 190 



410 

 170 



is;. 



185 

 130 



400 



175 



mm. mm. 



245 68 



215 

 235 

 228 



.'.ii 

 2:57 

 212 

 220 

 233 



230 



225 

 190 



"American Museum of Natural History. b Head and body. 275. '•Collection of Louis di Z. Mearns. 

 Genus EUTAMIAS Trouessart (I88O). 



Eutamias Tbouessabt, Catalogue des Mammiferes, Vivants et Fossiles, 

 Rongeurs, 86, 1880 (new subgenus).- Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XI. July 1. 1897, p. 189 (adopted us a lull genus). 



Dentition. l.)\; P. ]]; M. g = 22. 



Type. — Sciurus striatus asiaticus Gmelin. 



I have followed Doctor Merriam a in according generic value to the 

 subgenus Eutamias of Tamias, to which Trouessart assigned the 

 character " premoL 2 1." The type of Eutamias (fixed by Dr. 

 J. A. Allen'') is Tamias asiaticus (Gmelin). As stated by Doctor 



q Proe. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 189. 



&Proc. Linnsean Soc New York, July, 1894, p. i''.. 



