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surface of the fore-legš above the knees. The feet are Hght gray ; 

 tjie hairs of the tail are, for three-fourths of their length from the 

 roots, yellowish brown ; then black, edged with white ; the throat, 

 inner surface of the legs and the belly, white. 



Dimensions. in. lin. 



Length of head and body 9 6 



Tail(vertebr8e) 7 4 



Tail to point of hair 9 6 



Height of ear O 6 



Palm to end of middle claw 1 3 



Heel to end of middle nail 2 6 



Length of fur on the back O 5 



Breadth of tail -vvith hairs extended .... 3 O 



Dr. Bachman remarks that the present species has long been con- 

 founded with the Northern Gray Sąuirrel, but that any naturalist 

 •vvho has had an opportunity of comparing many specimens of both, 

 and of witnessing their natūrai habits, cannot fail to regard them as 

 distinct sjiecies. Specimens of the former, ■vvhich he had received 

 from North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, scarcely pre- 

 sented a shade of difFerence ■when placed beside those of South 

 Carolina ; whilst in the Northern Gray Sąuirrel the great variations 

 įn colour form a prominent characteristic distinction. 



As regards the geographical range of the Carolina Sąuirrel, Dr. 

 Bachman statės it to be abundant in South Carolina, Alabama, 

 Mississippi, and Georgia, especially in low grounds or swampy lo- 

 calities ; it is the only known species in the southern peninsula of East 

 Florida, and it also occurs, though not abundantly, in Louisiana. 

 Dr. Bachman has received it from North Carolina, and believes that 

 he has seen the species in the southern part of New Jersey. Its 

 habits he describes as very diiFerent from those of the Northern Gray 

 Sąuin-el : its bark is less fuU, but much shriller and more ąuerulous. 

 Instead of mounting high on the trees wben alarmed, it clings round 

 the trunk on the opposite side, and hides itself under the Spanish 

 mosses which are trailing around the trees. It is much less ■wild, 

 and conseąuently more readily captured than the northern species. 

 Its favourite haunts are low swampy situations, and amongst the 

 trees -vvhich overhang the streams and borders of the rivers : its nešt 

 is composed of leaves and Spanish moss, and is generally placed in 

 the hollow of some cypress. In one respect, it difFers from all the 

 other species of the genus, in being, to a certain extent, noctumal 

 in its habits. Dr. Bachman has freąuently observed it by moonlight 

 as actively engaged as the Flying Sąuirrel ; and the traveUer, after 

 sunset, in riding through the woods, is often startled by its noise. 



Sciurus Colliai. For a description of this species, of which the 

 original specimen is in the CoUection of the Zoological Society. 

 Dr. Bachman refers to Dr. Richardson's Appendix to Capt. Beechey's 

 Voyage. 



