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Subfamily Scilrixae. 



Genus SCIITRUS Linnaeus. 



1758. Sciurus Lixxaeus, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 63. Type. 

 jSciurus vulgaris Linxaeus. 



Subgenus Echixosciueus Trouessart.^ 



1880. Echinosciuriis Trouessart, Le naturaliste, ii, no. 37, 

 p. 292. October, 1880. Type. — Sciurus hypopyrrlius Wagler. 



* Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier. 



1829. ^Sciurus, by implication] aureogaster F. Cuvier, Hist. 



nat. mamraiferes' vi, livr. lix, pi. with text. September, 



1829. (Binomial published at end of work only, vol. ni, 



table gen^rale et methodique, p. 4, 1842.) 



1885. Sciurus aureogaster True, Froc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 



(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Part.) 



Type locality. — "California" — really eastern Mexico (see 



Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, p. 38, May 9, 1899). 



According to Canon xxxviii of the American Ornithologists' 



Union code, the name aureogaster is not tenable as published in 



1829. 



* Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus (Wagler) . 



1831. Sciurus kypox)yrr]ius Wagler, Oken's Isis, pp. 510- 



511. 

 1885. Sciurus hyjyopyrrhus True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 



(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Fart.) 

 1899. Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus Nelsox, Proc. 



Washington acad. sci., i, p. 42. May 9, 1899. 

 Type locality. — Mexico, probably in Vera Cruz. 



'Revised by Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, pp. 38-83. May 9, 1899. 



