94 SCIURUS NIGER. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 

 1 and 2. Adult males, California, Boucard , 1880. — 3. 

 Adult , California , Dodds Valley , collected by Schulte, Frank , 

 1866. — 4. Male, California, Eldorado-county, Sclilüter, 

 1878. Iris brown. — 5. Female, Eldorado-county, 13 Ja- 

 nuary 1877. — 6. Adult specimen, California, Boucard, 

 1880. Lowerparts brownish-black , for the rest deep black 

 throughout. — 7. Halfgrown, California, Boucard, 1880. 

 Tail black with a brown shade, the rest deep black. 



8. Skull of N» 1. — 9. Skull of N^. 6. — 10. Skull 

 of NO. 7. 



Sciurus niger. 



1743. Sciurus niger Catesby. Carolina, II. p. 73. pi. LXXIII 



(Ex Allen's Mon. N.-Amer. Rodentia). 

 1877. Sciurus niger Allen. Mon. N.-Am. Rodentia. p. 717. 



I have seen only the second edition of Catesby's splen- 

 did book. This edition bears 1754 as year and has been 

 revised by Edwards. Plate 73 represents a specimen with 

 a white band round the neck and plate 74 shows, under 

 the name Sciurus virginianus cinereus major , a gray variety 

 from Virginia and Carolina , where , says Catesby , they 

 are injurious to the planters, by destroying their corn and 

 pulse. One upper premolar. 



Hab. From the Atlantic Coast Westward into Indiana 

 and Southward into Texas, Mexico and perhaps as far 

 south as Guatemala (Allen. 1. c. p. 725). 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 

 1. Adult , Wisconsin , T. Kumlien , 30 March 1865. Colored 

 like the typical Sciurus ludovicianus . — 2. Adult female, 

 Wisconsin, Kumlien, 17 June 1865. — 3. Adult male, 

 Wisconsin, Kumlien, 26 December 1865. — 4. Adult male, 

 Missouri, Brandt, Hamburg, 1863. Received s. n. Sciurus 

 rufiventer. — 5. Adult female, Tennessee , Nashville, Troost, 

 1830. — 6. Adult specimen, Louisiana, Schaufuss, 1868. 



Notes from tUe Leyden IMuseuiu, Vol. V. 



