SQUIRRELS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 6*J 



the way south from that port we took the last typical specimen of S. s. 

 cocos at Jamiltepec, Oaxaca ; the series taken beyond, at Puerto 

 Angel, is intermediate between true socialis and cocos. We found 

 these squirrels frequenting cocoanut groves near Acapulco and feeding 

 upon the nuts. It is the only squirrel we saw doing this although 

 cocoanut trees are common in the ranges of various other species. 

 The name of the subspecies was suggested by this peculiar habit. 



Specimens examined. — Thirty-three : from Acapulco, Aguacatillo, 

 San Marcos, and Ometepec, Guerrero ; Pinotepa, Llano Grande and 

 Jamiltepec, Oaxaca. 



SCIURUS GRISEOFLAVUS (Gray) Guatemala Squirrel. 



Scinrus ludoviciamts Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 281, 1861 (from 

 Duenas, Guatemala. Not S. ludovicianns Custis, 1806). 



Macroxus griseoflavus Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d sen, xx, p. 427, 

 1867. 



Sciurus aureigaster PsAA^YM, Mon. N. Am. Rodentia, pp. 750-753, 1877 (part : 

 No. 1 156 from Guatemala). 



Sciurus griseoflavus Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 660, 1878 ; Biol. 

 Cent. -Am., Mamm., pp. 126-127, 1880; Allen, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur- 

 vey Terr., IV, pp. 880-881, 1878. 



Sciurus affinis (Reinhardt, MS. in) Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 

 660, 1878 (nomen nudum). 



Type locality. — * Guatemala.' (Specimens from near Duenas art* 

 typical). 



Distribution. — Oak and pine forests of the Transition and Boreal 

 zones in central and northwestern Guatemala and adjacent high 

 mountains in southeastern Chiapas, Mexico. 



Character's. — Size large and heavy. Color of upper parts grizzled 

 yellowish brown, thinly washed with gray (especially in winter) ; 

 belly fulvous brown or rusty rufous. Pelage full and soft ; under 

 fur long; tail broad and flat. Teats: p. i a. |- i. \. 



Color. — Upperparts, including crown and base of tail, grizzled 

 yellowish brown, sometimes thinly washed with grayish white; out- 

 side of legs like flanks ; feet usually grayer, but sometimes grizzled 

 yellow and brown, and sometimes dark yellowish brown; top of nose, 

 sides of head, and ears, grayer than crown; an indistinct dingy 

 grayish ear patch sometimes present; chin and throat pale grayish 

 fulvous; rest of underparts varying from dark dull rufous to dingy 

 grayish washed with reddish fulvous; tail above black washed with 

 white, with underlying yellowish brown showing through; below, 

 with broad median area grizzled yellowish or rufous brown, bordered 



