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22. Sciuru.s hudsonicm Erxlebfn. Red Squirrel. Chickaree. 

 Miami county (J. C. Cunningham). 



Fulton county. Shot one near Kewanna, 12-24-'89. 

 Wabash county (Ulrey ; Blatchley). 

 Randolph county (Cox). Occasionally seen. 

 Blackf()rd county (Cox). Abundant. 

 Franklin county (Haymond). 

 La Grange county (Steininger). 



Huntington county. The most common squirrel. Some neighbor boys 

 raised fourteen young in 1892 ( W. E. Bardsley). 



23. Sciurm carolinensis caroUneiisis Allen. Southern Gray Squirrel. 

 Franklin c mnty. Some years quite common in this part of the state. 



Both forms are found here. The gray squirrel is still plenty enough 

 to be extensively hunted. 



24. Sciurus carolinensis h-ucotis Gapper. Northern Gray Squirrel. 

 Carroll county. Formerly abundant. 



Monroe county. Not common now. 



Vigo county. Not common now. 



Wabash county (Ulrey), 



Randolph county (Cox). Common in places. 



Franklin county (Haymond). 



This squirrel is now much less common than it was fifteen to twenty- 

 five years ago. I have for five years watched the Terre Haute market, and 

 in all that time I have not seen over a dozen gray squirrels, while hun- 

 dreds of fox squirrels were seen. The few gray squirrels that I did see in 

 the market here came from the lower Wabash somewhere (Evermann). 



La Grange county (Steininger). 



This form with the other is found in Franklin county, though the 

 numbers vary from year to year. 



I myself have not seen a black squirrel for many years, though they 

 were not rare in Carroll county when I was a boy. 



It is now agreed that the Black Squirrels are a form of the Northern 

 Gray Squirrel. They were formerly quite common in southeastern Indiana, 

 but are now never seen. The lessening of the numbers of this form, leucotis, 

 and the increase of the numbers of the southern form, carolinensis, is noted 

 by most of the inhabitants. The older men speak of the disappearance of 

 the black and of the graj*^ squirrels " we used to have," and of the ap- 

 pearance of the reddish gray squirrels, which they term a cross between 



