28 BANGS — A NEW CHICKAREE [ae 
outer fringe ved, and not much paler than the median band; 
under surface of tail reddish, with much black. 
Three —Sciurus hudsonicus loguax Bangs, occurring only in the 
Carolinian and Transition life zones. Size large (reaching the 
extreme in this respect in Iowa, Indiana, southern Wisconsin and 
southern Minnesota). Colors above brighter and more rufous; 
under parts, in winter, white, with usually no trace of dusky ver- 
miculations, though the gray under fur shows through in places; 
very little black in tail, outer fringe rather paler and more yellow 
than median band; under surface of tail bright yellowish red 
with little black. 
In his recent review of the chickarees,* Dr. J. A. Allen did not 
separate the Hudsonian and Canadian form, although in several 
places he refers to its differences from true S. Audsonicus and from 
S. A. loguax. 
The new form may be known as 
Sciurus (Tamiasciurus) hudsonicus gymnicus’ subsp. nov. 
Type, from Greenville (near Moosehead Lake), Maine, @ adult, no. 4914, 
coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. collected Dec. 1, 1895, by C. H. Goldthwaite. 
Subspecific characters.— Size smallest; hind foot small; colors all very 
dark; under parts, in winter, gray, much vermiculated with dusky; tail dark- 
colored, with much black, its outer fringe not conspicuously lighter than is the 
median band. 
Color, winter pelage — Upper parts, a broad band of rich ferruginous extend- 
ing from top of head down back and upper tail; sides, upper surface of feet 
and hands, and face, olivaceous gray; the whole upper surface, including 
dorsal band, is varied by each hair having a blackish ring and often a blackish 
tip also; under parts gray, much vermiculated with dusky ; tail, upper surface, 
a broad central band of rich ferruginous, a black subapical band and an outer 
fringe of ferruginous (sometimes slightly paler and more tawny than central 
band), under surface tawny, rather more ferruginous toward tip, with subapical 
black band, most of the hairs ringed with black. 
Summer pelage—— Whole upper parts dull ferruginous, brightest on upper 
surface of arms, hands and feet, and more olivaceous on sides and on face; a 
black lateral stripe; under parts pure white. 
Size.—Type, 2 adult: total length, 300.; tail vertebra, 117.; hind foot, 
47.mm. Averages of six adult topotypes, ds and@Qs: total length, 290.2; 
1Bull. Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist., Vol. X, 1898, pp. 249-298. 
2 Gymnicus — gymnastic. 
