58 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Records in Pa. — Beaver Co. — Said to have been taken several times in 

 B. Co. in recent years. — Todd, 1901. 



Washington Co. — One killed near the capital of W. Co. about 1870. 

 Once numerous; now about extinct. — Nease, 1900. Seen occasionally in 

 this Co. — Linton, 1899. 



Description of species. — Size not much greater than the northern gray 

 squirrel (6". c. leucotis), much smaller than the southern fox squirrel (-5. niger). 

 Ears and nose never white. Colors variable, but much deeper and more 

 ferruginous than in the next sub-species {S. rufiventer jiegkctus) ; sometimes 

 wholly black, or black-bellied with reddish gray upper parts, others again are 

 orange beneath. In S. r. neglectus the size is larger than in rufiventer, the 

 belly usually white. Wholly black individuals of neglectus are rare, accord- 

 ing to Bangs. 



Measurements {rufiventer). — Total lenth, 541 mm. (213^ in.); tail ver- 

 tebrae, 252 (10); hind foot, 73.7 (2^^) ; {neglectus) 590 (231^); 270 

 i^oYz); 73 (2^). 



Northeastern Fox Squirrel. Sciurus rufiventer neglectus (Gray). 



1867. Macroxus neglectus Gray. Annals and Magazine N. History, 3rd 

 series, vol. 20, p. 425. 



1902. Sciurus rufiventer neglectus, Allen, Bulletin Amer. Museum Nat. 

 History, vol. 16, p. 167. 



Type locality. — Wilmington, Delaware. 



Faunal distribution. — " The northeastern fox squirrel is an inhabitant of the 

 Upper Austral zone but occasionally wanders into the Transition zone." — 

 Miller. Now rarely found in Pa. except in the Lower Transition zone. 



Distribution in Pa. and N.J. — Once found over all parts of the two states 

 except in the Canadian and Upper Transition areas of the mountains. Prob- 

 ably always rarer in Chester and Delaware Cos. and in southern N. J. than in 

 south central Pa. and northern N. J. Now exterminated in N. J. but found 

 occasionally in the Pa. counties bordering the lower Susquehanna, also yet 

 recorded from the northwestern part of Pa. Destined to extermination in 

 our entire limits unless large areas of countiy in middle Pa. revert to a 

 wilderness condition or become game reservations under state protection. 



Records in Pa. — Adams Co. — Warren, Poultry Book, p. 507. 



Cameron Co. — Very rare ; none seen for years in Cameron Co. — Larrabee. 

 This record has not much significance, as it is not likely that the fox squirrel 

 was ever found, except as a rare straggler after the coniferous forests became 

 destroyed in the counties of Pa. which lie almost wholly within the Upper 

 Transition and Canadian life zones. See negative records under Clinton, 

 Forest, McKean, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Tioga and Venango Cos. — 

 Rhoads. 



