296 Monograph of the Genus Sdurus. 



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A 



General description. — Body slight and formed for activity; 

 tail broad and long ; color ^ above grey, washed with yellow ; 

 hairs of the upper surface^ slate colored at base^ annulate with yel- 

 low, then blaclc, and annulated with yellowish white : sides of 

 the face and neck and all beneath^ with the feet and inner side 

 of limbs golden yellow ; hair of the ears^ long, golden yellow; 

 hairs of the feet blackish at root, sometimes tipt with black ; hairs 

 of tail black at base^ yellow, triannulate with black ; whiskers 

 black; longer than the head. 



Dimensions. 



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Length of head and body, 

 Ditto of tail, {vertebral^ ) 



In, Lin. 



10 6 

 9 2 



Ditto including far, - - - - 12 



Ditto of palm to end of middle fore claw, - 17 



Ditto of heel to point of middle nail, - - 2 7 



Ditto of fur on the back, 



Height of ear posteriorly. 



a 



u 



7 

 5 



Breadth of tail with hair extended, . - - 8 6 



Weight li- lbs. 



4. Species magnicaudatus . Great-tailed Squirrel. 



Sciwms maci^oiiriis. Say, Long's Expedition, vol. i, p. 115* 



magnicaudatus , Harlan's Fauna, p. 170. 



macroiirtis, Godman's Nat. Hist. Yol. 2, p. 134 



ENTiAL CHARACTERS. — Sizc intermediate 



reus and S. lettcotis ; body above and on each side mingled grey 



ears 



General description. — Fur plumbeous ; black at the base ; 

 then, in sucession, pale cinnamon, black, cinereous, and tipt with 



black ; ears, without^ 



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nous, with the hairs tipt with black ; sides of the head, with the 

 orbits of the eyes and betly, pale ferruginous; under part of head 

 and neck, upper part of feet, with the tail, ferruginous ; this latter 

 beneath, bright, and above, marked with black ; cheeks beneath 

 the eyes and ears dusky, and the mouth margined with black ; 

 whiskers disposed in five series of flattened hairs, the inferior 

 more distinct. The fur of the belly is plumbeous at the base ; 

 fur of the under surface of the tail, bright ferruginous at base with 

 a sub-marginal line, that of the upper surface of a pale cinnamon 

 within, with the base and three bands black ; palms of the fore 



