é2) REPORT OF ‘NEW GERSEY STATE MUSE UIE 
mediately to the entrance to call again in derision, as it were, or 
more likely as a warning to his companions. 
Mr. Rhoads states (Mammals of Penna. and N. J., p. 62), that 
although the young are usually supposed to be born in the spring 
he has obtained young, two-thirds grown, in October. 
Sciurus striatus Beesley, Geol. Cape May Co., 1857, p. 137. 
Tamias striatus Abbott, Cook’s Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 757.— 
Abbott, A Naturalist’s Rambles, 1885, p. 450.—Rhoads, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897, p. 30.—Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. 
ee@o2, p. OTs 
Genus Sciurus Linnzus. 
Sciurus rufiventer neglectus (Gray). 
Fox Squirrel. 
Length 23.50 inches. Large, with very long bushy tail. 
Grizzly or yellowish gray, hairs banded with black; more or less 
rusty tinted above; under parts pale ferrunginous to nearly white, 
tail rusty beneath, bordered with black. Color distribution vari- 
able. 
Now quite extinct in New Jersey, though once distributed over 
practically the whole State. Elsewhere its history is the same and 
it is to-day only found at a few points south. The very large size 
of this squirrel would distinguish it from any other species. 
Sciurus cinerens Abbott, Cook’s Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 756. 
Sciurus vulpinus Beesley, Geol. Cape May Co., 1857, p. 137. 
Sciurus rufiventer neglectus Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1905, 
Ds 50: 
Sciurus carolinensis (Gmelin). 
Gray Squirrel, Black Squirrel. 
PLATE 36. 
Length 18 inches. Large bushy tail like the fox squirrel, but 
much smaller. Color yellowish gray, hairs banded with rusty 
yellow and black; face, feet and sides quite rusty, belly white. 
