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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. 



Sciiirus 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. 

 J., 1903, p. 61. 



Genus Sciurus Linnaeus. 



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, 

 p. 58. 



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. 



