MARCH 31, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 27-29 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF CHICKAREE. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
WHEN I wrote my ‘ Review of the Squirrels of Eastern North 
America,’ ' I was tempted to recognize three instead of two races 
of the chickaree, but decided to wait for more material. Since 
then I have examined a large number of additional specimens, 
and now no longer hesitate to assert that three well-characterized 
geographical races of the chickaree inhabit eastern North 
America. 
One —True Sciurus hudsonicus Erx\., found in the Labrador 
peninsula and thence westward in Arctic America.” Size medium, 
colors above pale, the dorsal band of the winter pelage light red; 
under parts, in winter, grayish and vermiculated with blackish; 
tail with the outer fringe ye/ow or grayish, and much paler than 
the median band; under surface of tail grayish or yellowish, with 
little red or black. 
Two —Scurus hudsonicus gymnicus subsp. nov., occupying the 
lower Hudsonian and the Canadian life zones. Smallest of all 
the chickarees. Colors above dark; tail dark, with much black, 
1Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. X, pp. 145-167, Dec. 28, 1896. 
21 do not think the form occupying the western fur countries and Alaska is identical with the 
form of the Labrador peninsula, the latter of course being true S. Audsonicus, though they are 
similar. More material from both regions should be brought together, and a critical study of 
these Arctic forms made, 
