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times white. Total length, 23 inches; tail vertebrae, il 

 inches; hind foot, 3 inches. Found from " Central Virgima 

 and West Virginia to Pennsylvania." (Miller) 

 Bryant Fox Squirrel.— 5ci«rw5 niger bryanti H. H. Bailey. 

 Said to be distinctly larger than typical niger. "Above 

 bluish gray, thickly grizzled with black, ends tipped with 

 white, sides similar; below white. Nose white.^^ Tail with 

 a pronounced black stripe on outer edges." (Bailey) 

 Found in Dorchester County, Maryland. 

 Western Fox Squirrel. — Sciurus niger rufiventer (Geoffroy). 

 Much smaller than typical niger and but little larger than 

 the Northern Gray Squirrel; color pattern variable but usu- 

 ally tawny brown grizzled with gray above and pale rufous 

 or yellowish brown below; nose and ears never white; tail 

 mixed black and tawny rufous. Total length, 21 inches; 

 tail vertebra), 9.5 inches; hind foot, 2.8 inches. Found m 

 "Greater part of the Mississippi Valley, from northern 

 Louisiana to southern Wisconsin." (Miller) 

 Bachman Fox Squirrel. — Sciurus niger texianus (Bachman;. 

 Intermediate between typical niger and rufiventer; larger 

 than rufiventer and of same rusty type of coloration; nose 

 and ears whitish but less so than m ?iiger. Total length, 

 2S inches- tail vertebras, 11 inches; hmd foot, 3 mches. 

 Found in the "Coast region of Louisiana and Mississippi. 

 (Miller) ,. . . ,^ . ,, 



Texas Fox Squirrel. — Sciurus mger hmitts (Baird) . 



Similar to rufiventer but paler in color and smaller. Upper- 

 parts yellowish gray mixed with blackish; underparts 

 orange-buff; black individuals said not to occur, total 

 length IQ.S inches; tail vertebrae, 9.5 inches; hmd foot, 2.7 

 inches! Found in "Western Texas and northeastern 

 Mexici." (Miller) 

 Apache Squirrel.— Scturus apache AUen. ^ . , ^ 



Similar in general appearance to a Fox Squirrel. In sum- 

 mer pelage yellowish brown above grizzled with dusky and 

 gray along the dorsal region; sides brighter and merging into 

 ochraceous underparts; limbs ochraceous; tail long and - 

 moderately bushy, blackish brown fringed with whitish | 

 above deep ochraceous bordered with black and edged with 1 

 whitish below. In winter pelage, with a broad blackish dorsal 

 band from crown to root of tail. Soles of feet naked, lotal 

 length, 22 inches; tail vertebrae, 11 inches; hmd foot 3- 1 | 

 inches Mainlv Mexican in its distribution, but reaching | 

 the pine and oak forests of the Chiricahua Mountains of 1 

 southern Arizona. . . • /^ ^c. T 



Arizona Gray SquineL— Sciurus anzonensis anzonensts (^oues. « 

 Although a member of the same subgenus with the Fox 

 Squirrels, the Arizona Gray Squirrel most resembles the 

 true Gray Squirrels in appearance. General color ot ^PPev- 

 parts gray, mixed black and white, with broad yellowish 

 brown dorsal band from crown to root of tail; sides clearer 



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