sciuRus 907 



Specimena pxamined. — Eight, from the following localities : — 

 Norway: Hammcrfest, Fiiimarken, 2; Alteu, Finmarkeu, 1. 

 Sweden : Enontekis, Norrbotten, 1. 

 Finland: Muonionniska, 3 ; Kirkkonummi, 1. 



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



Norway. (J. L. Bonhotf.) (p). 

 9. Alten, Finmarkcn. Christiania Musemn 93. 3. 1. 9. 



6. Enontekis, Norrljotten, D. IMeinertzhagcn 97. 10. 21. 5. 



Sweden. (c & p). 



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



(C (fe p). 

 6. Kirkkonummi, Finland. Lord Lilford (i'). 98. 11. 4. 2. 



(P. Mcrilaincn.) 



SCIURUS VULGARIS LEUCOURUS KciT. 



1792. Sc\i7irufi] vnlg[ciris] lencourus Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 25G. 



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



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



p. 402, November, 1896. 

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

 190G. Sciurus vulgaris leucurus Trouessart, Bull. IMus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 



XII, p. 3G'2. 

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



p. 118. 



Type locaUti/. — England. 



Geo(jrnpliical distribution. — Great Britain and Ireland. 



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

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

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

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

 hroccoli-bi'own. Size small, the condylobasal length of skull 

 I'arely if ever exceeding 48 mm. 



dolour. — Summer pelage : upper parts a reddish brown ^ iirN'ing 

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

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

 surface of limbs, and on feet ; underparts dull white, usuall\' 

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

 ochraceous, this spreading to suffuse inner svirface 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. Winter pelage : upperparts an incon- 

 sjiicuously grizzled greyish brown approaching the broccoli- 

 bi'own of Ridgway ; the middle of back faintly darker, tlu^ 

 sliouklcrs and sides of neck usuallv tinged with russet ; outer 

 surface of limbs and narrow line along sides russet or hazel, 

 rarely with the; decided I'eddish tinge seen in summer ; under- 

 parts dvdl white ; tail and ear-tufts dral), occasionally with a 

 dusky cast. 



Measure )ne)itx. — Adult male and female from Dunphail, Elgin, 

 Scotland: head and body, 218 and ^l\'.^ ; tail, 179 aiul 165; 



