sciuRus 909 



J, 29. Thornhaugh, Northanip- Rev. H. H. Slater 11. 1. 3. -129-431. 



toushire. (c & )>). 



•2.6. Bury St. Edmunds, Suf- Dr. A.Giinther (cct p). 83.2.3.1-2. 

 folk. 



6. Horsham, Surrey. E. R. Alston (i). 7'J. 9. 25. 29. 



(J. E. Ifarting.) 



55. Blandford, Dorset. J. C. Manscl Pleydell 97. 1. 6. 1-55. 



(c & p). 



SciURUS VULGARIS RUSSUS Miller. 



1857. Sciurus vulr/aris Blasius, Siiugothiere Deutschlauds, p. 272 (part). 

 1899. Sciurus vulgaris rufus Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. See, London, 

 p. 5 (part). Not of Kerr, 1792. 



1906. Sciurus vulgaris rufus Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 



XII, p. 360 (part). Not of Korr,'l792. 



1907. Sciurus vulgaris russus Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th sor., 



XX, p. 427, November, 1907. Type in British IMuseum. 

 1910. Sciurus vulgaris russus Trouessart, Fauna Mamm. d'Europc, p. 119. 



Type locality. — Dinan, Cotes-du-Nord, France. 



Geographical flistrihution. — West-central continental Europe 

 from Brittany to Holland, east to central France and jaerhaps 

 further ; details of distribution not known. 



Diagnosis. — Dark phase present but less common than red 

 phase. Hummer pelage : red phase : essentially as in S. vulgaris 

 vulgaris, but red of back more strongly tinged with chestnut ; 

 dark phase : body very dark, almost blackish mummy -brown, 

 the sides and shoulders washed with hazel ; tail blackish. 

 AVinter pelage : light phase : body hazel, the sides a little 

 sullused with light smoke-grey, tail rufous, much darker than 

 that of Ridgway ; dark j^hase not seen. 



Measurements. — Type (adult male) : head and body, 202 ; 

 tail, 166; hind foot, 54; ear, 30. A second adult male from 

 the type locality : head and body, 208 ; tail, 173 ; hind foot, 

 54 ; ear, 28. Adult male and female from Oosterbeek, Guelder- 

 land, Holland: head and body, 217 and 227; tail, 175 and 

 172; hind foot, 57*5 and 57 '5; ear, 31 and 32. For cranial 

 measurements see Table, p. 919. 



Spcciinens examined. — ^Twenty-six, from the following localities : — 

 Holland : s'Graveland, 8 ; Oosterbeek, Guelderland, 2. 

 France : Seinc-Inf6rieure, 5 ; Dinan, C6tes-du-Nord, 4 ; Meurthe-et- 

 Moselle, 7 (perhaps referable to S. v. infuscatus). 



2 c5, 4 9. s'Graveland, Hilversen, F. E. Blaauw (c & p). 98. 5. 17. 1-2. 



Holland. 98. 6. 11. I-2! 



98. 11. 13. 1-2. 



6, 9. Oosterbeek, Guelder- 0. Thomas (c & p). 98. 2. 1. 13-14. 

 land. 



6. Duclair, Seine - Inferi- G. Barrett-Hamilton 11.1.2.157. 



eure. Prance. (p). 



4 6. Dinan, Brittany. W. J. Bramley (c & p). 97. 11. 6. 1-4 



(97. 11. 6. 2. TyjK of subspecies.) 



5 9. Manonville, Meurthe- Lord Lilford (p). 11. 1. 1. 97-101. 



et-Moselle. (Lomont.) 



