114 SCIURUS VULGARIS. 



Sciurus vulgaris. 



1776. Sciurus vulgaris Lin. Systema Naturae. XII ed. p. 86. 

 1821, Sciurus alpinus Cuv. Maram. litli. 22e livr. fig. 

 1843. Sciurus europaeus Gray. List of the spec, of Mam. 



in the coll. of the British Museum, p. 139. 

 1867. Sciurus calotus Gray. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, 

 p. 272. 



See also : Sciurus italicus Bonap. Fauna ital. fasc. 23. 



Lowerparts always pure white. Hairs of tail always red 

 or black tipped. Two upper premolars. Skeleton with 12 

 costales, 7 lumbares, 3 sacrales and 21 caudales (12, 7, 



3, 25 apud Cuvier; 12, 7, 3, 24 apud Wagner). 



Hab. Europa and Northern Asia. The most Southern 

 limits in Asia seem to be Japan , Northern China and 

 Tibet. Eichwald stated that it abounds in the Caucasus. 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum : 

 •TJie red variety : 1 . Adult male , the Netherlands , War- 

 mond , 8 June 1854, A. A. v. Beramelen. — 2. Adult male, 

 Maarssen, 17 March 1861, A. A. v. Bemmelen. — 3. Adult 

 male, Hilversum , 12 October 1860 , A. A. van Bemmelen. — 



4. Adult male, Guelders, 4 June 1862. — 5. Adult spe- 

 cimen, Zutphen , 5 October 1859, Temminck Jr. — 6. 

 Very young male , Zeist , 4 July 1862. — 7,8 and 9. 

 Two adult males and one female , Hanover , Norden , August 

 1859, de Graaf. — 10. Adult specimen, North Europe. — 

 11 and 12. Adult and young, Temminck's collection. — 

 13. Adult , Europe. Upperparts uniformly light reddish brown 

 colored, 



The Siberian variety: 14. Adult, East Siberia, from the 

 Petersburgh-Museum , 1869. — 15. Nearly fullgrowu female, 

 Sweden, Schonen, 1 May 1877, Schliiter, 1878. Tail and 

 carpencils reddish-black, middle of back red. — 16. Adult, 

 East Siberia, from the Petersburgh-Museum, 1869. Tail 

 and earpencils reddish black, like hands and feet. — 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseum, "Vol. "V. 



