sciuRUs 907 



Specimens examined. — Eight, from the following localities :^ 

 Norway: Hainmerfest, Finmarken, 2; Alten, Finmarken, 1. 

 Sweden: Enontekis, Norrbotten, 1. 

 Finland : Muouionniska, 3 ; Kirkkonummi, 1. 



2. Hammerfest, Finmarken, G. Barrett-Hamilton 11. 1. 2. 152-153. 



Norway. (J. L. Bonhutc.) (p). 

 9. Alten, Finmarken. Christiania Museum 93. 3. 1. 9. 



(P)- 

 6. Enontekis, Norrbotten, I). Meinertzhagrn 97. 10. 21. 5. 

 Sweden. (c & p). 



4. Muonionniska, Finland. D. Meinertzhagen 97. 10. 21. 1-4. 



(c & p). 



5. Kirkkonummi, Finland. Lord Lilford (p). 98. 11. 4. 2. 



(P. Mevilainen.) 



SciURUS VULGARIS LEUCOURUs Kerr. 



1792. Sc\iurus] mdg\aris\ leucoiirus Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 25G. 



1857. Sciurus vulgaris Blasius, Siiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 272 (part). 



189G. Sciurus vulgaris leucurus Thomas, The Zoologist, 3d ser., xx, 



p. 402, November, 189G. 

 1899. Sciurus leucurus Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 3. 

 190G. Scimms vtilgaris leucurus Trouessart, Bull. IMus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 



XII, p. 3G2. 

 1910. Sciurus vulgaris leucur2is Trouessart, Faune ]\Iamm. d'Europe, 



p. 118. 



Ti/pe local itij. — England. 



Geographical distributibn. — Great Britain and Ireland. 



Diagnosis. — Dark phase absent ; tail drab, fading in summer 

 to cream-buff, never tinged with red ; summer pela,ge : general 

 colour above light hazel or dull rufous, clearest and brightest on 

 sides and legs ; winter pelage : general colour above a dull 

 broccoli-brown. Size small, the condylobasal lengtli of skull 

 rarely if ever exceeding 48 mm. 



Colour. — Summer ijelag(! : upper parts a I'eddish brown varying 

 from a light hazel to a dull rufous, darker and less reddish along 

 median area from face to rump, brighter on sides, on outer 

 surface of limbs, and on feet ; underparts dull white, usually 

 marked off from brown of sides by a narrow line of tawnj-- 

 ochraceous, this spreading to suffuse inner surface of limbs ; tail 

 a rather dark drab bleaching irregularly^ to cream-buff ; a similar 

 bleaching takes place in the remnants of the ear-tufts which 

 occasionally persist. AVinter pelage : upperparts an incon- 

 spicuously grizzled greyish brown approaching the broccoli- 

 brown of Ridgway ; the middle of back faintlj' darker, tiie 

 shoulders and sides of neck usuall}" tinged with ru.sset ; outer 

 surface of limbs and narrow line along sides ru.sset or hazel, 

 rarely with the decided reddish tinge seen in summer ; under- 

 parts dull white ; tail and ear-tufts drab, occasionalh' with a 

 dusky cast. 



Mensureiiicnt.t. — Adult male and female from Dunphail, Elgin, 

 Scotland: head and bodv, -18 and 213; tail, 179 and 165; 



