in the Collection of the British Museum. 421 



Var., Sc. texianus, Bach. B.M. 

 Sc. rufigaster, Mac Murtrie. B.M. 



Fur coarse and harsh, iron-grey, black, or rusty-coloured 

 black-varied ; ears and nose white. 



Hab. North America, Southern States, Florida, Georgia, 

 Louisiana : B.M. Texas: B.M. 



Var. 1 . Pale iron-grey ; crown of head and cheeks black ; 

 beneath white; hairs of tail white, with a very broad subter- 

 minal black band and grey tip. 



Var. 2. Blackish iron-grey ; head, neck, shoulders, thighs, 

 legs, and feet black ; tail blackish, beneath white, lateral streak 

 between the two colours black ; hairs of tail dark grey, with a 

 very broad black end. 



Var. 3. Like var, 2, dark iron-grey ; head, throat, underside, 

 and body and limbs black ; nose and ears white ; feet white- 

 varied; hair of tail white, with a subterminal black band. 



Hab. Northern States. 



Var. 4. Yellow, iron-grey-grizzled; crown blackish; sides of 

 throat yellowish ; belly white-yellow ; hairs of tail yellow or 

 reddish yellow, with a black subterminal band. 



Hab. Texas : B.M. Louisiana : B.M. 



2. Macroxus Collim. 



Sciurus Collieei, Richardson, Zool. Blossom, 1839, p. 8, 1. 1 ; Aud. & Bach. 



Quad. N. A. 1853, iii. 21, t. 104 ; S. Bau-d, M. N. A. 280. 

 Sc. variecjatoides, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 117; S. Baird, M. N. A. 283. 

 Sc. griseocaudatus. Gray, Zool. Sulph. 1834, t. 13. f. 2, t. 18. f. 7-12 (skull); 



S. Baird, M. N. A. 283. 



Fur harsh, rather rigid, nearly uniform grey, more or less 

 varied with black from the derangement of the hairs; hairs 

 black, with a subterminal white band; cheeks and chin grey; 

 tuft behind ears yellow, often very large ; chest and belly white 

 or deep yellow : tail black, washed with white ; hairs yellow, 

 with a black subterminal band and a white tip. 



Hab. Central America. 



Var. 1. Under surface yellow; ear-tuft red; feet reddish. 



Sciurus variegatoides, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 117. 

 Sc. griseocaudatus, Gray, Zool. Sulphur, t. 12. f. 2. 



Hab. West coast of America (Belcher, Ogilby, type in B.M. ; 



Gray, type in B,M.). 



Var. 2. Sides of the body and neck and outer and inner sides 

 of limbs bright rufous ; throat, chest, and the middle of the 

 belly white. 



Sciurus intermedins, Verreaux. 



Hab. Guatemala (Verreaux). B.M., type. 

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