SCIURIDA—SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS VAR. LEUCOTIS. TOL 
Sciurus culpinus DeKay, N. Y. Zool. i, 1842, 59 (winter pelage). 
Sciurus migratorius AUDUBON & BacuMan, Quad. N. Amer. i, 1849, 265, pl. xxxv.—Kennicorr, U.S. Pat- 
ent Office Rep. Agricul. for 1856, 1857, 62, pl. vi—Apams, Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, 
296 (western and southwestern parts of New Brunswick). 
Seiurus carolinensis GODMAN, Amer. Nat. Hist. ii, 1826, 131—Dovuanry, Cab. Nat. Hist. ii, 1832, 240, pl. 
xxi.—Barrp, Mam. N. Amer., 1857, 256, pl. xlv, fig. 2 (skull) (in part; “larger northern” 
and “black and dusky” varieties only)—Tnomas, Trans. Il]. State Agricult. Soc. iv, 1860, 
656.—HALL, Canad. Nat. and Geol. 1861, 301—Haypen, Trans. Am. Phil. See. Phila. xii, 
1863, 144.—ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zod]. i, 1569, 222 (Massachusetts); Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist. xiii, 1870, 188 (lowa).—Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 426 (vars. 
“major” et “niger”’). 
Sciurus carolinensis var. leucotis ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii, 1874, 287. 
? Macroxus melania Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 425. 
Var. CAROLINENSIS. 
Southern Gray Squirrel. 
Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 148 (based on Pennant’s Lesser Gray Squirrel from 
Carolina).—M’Murrrit, M’Murtrie’s Cuvier (Am. ed.) i, 1831, 333.—BacuMaNn, Proce. Zool. 
Soc. Lond. 1838, 94; Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist. iii, 1839, 330; Amer. Journ. Sci. and 
Arts, xxxvii, 1839, 304.—ScuINnz, Synop. Mam. ii, 1845, 8—AupuBOoN & BacuMan, Quad. N. 
Amer. i, 1849, 55, pl. vii—? Woopuouss, Sitgreaves’s Col. and Zuni Riv. Exped. 1853, 52 
(ind. Ter. and Texas).—Bairp, Mam. N. Amer, 1857, 256 (‘small southern variety ” only ).— 
SaussurRz, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1861, 3 (Mexico)—Tomes, Proce. Zodl. Soc. Lond, 1861, 
282 (Guatemala).—Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 426 (var. “minor” only ).— 
ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo6l. ii, 1871, 176 (Florida).—Maynarp, Bull. Essex Inst. iv, 1872, 
145 (Florida). 
Sciurus carolinensis ??, Barrp, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 263 (Santa Catarina, New Leon, Mex.) 
Sciurus carolinensis var. carolinensis ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvi, 1874, 287. 
Sciurus fuliginosus BACHMAN, Proce. Zobl. Soe. Lond. 1838, 96 (dusky phase); Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. 
Hist. iii, 1839, 500.—WaGner, Suppl. Schreber’s Siiuget. iii, 1242, 176—ScuH1Nz, Synop. Mam. 
ii, 1845, 9.—AupUBON & BacuMan, Quad. N. Amer. iii, 1853, 240, pl. exlix, fig. 2. 
? Sciurus deppei PeTERS, Monatsh. Kénigl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863 (1864), 654. 
Lesser Gray Squirrel, PENNANT, Synop. Quad. 1771, 283. 
Beureuil gris de la Carolina, F. Cuvier, Hist. des Mamm. i, livr. —, 1819 (plate and text). 
Var. LEUCOTIS. 
Northern Gray Squirrel. 
VARIETAL CHARS.—Length of body about 10.50 inches, varying from 9 
to 11.50; tail-vertebrae 8, varying from 7 to 9; tail to end of hairs 11.50, 
varying from about 10 to 12.50. Above, whitish-gray, with a dorsal area and 
a lateral line brownish-yellow, and with a more or less strong fulvous suffu- 
sion beneath the surtace of the pelage, generally more or less apparent through 
the surface-tints; beneath, white. Varies through dusky and annulated 
phases to intense glossy black; rarely, in the dusky phases, with areas of 
yellowish-brown below, more or less strongly annulated with black. Tail 
with the hairs yellowish-brown basally, with narrow black annulations, and a 
broad, conspicuous, subterminal black bar, the hairs all broadly tipped with 
white, giving a white surface-tint, through which the yellowish-brown and 
black bars are seen beneath. Ears not tufted, with or without a conspicuous 
woolly tuft of white at the base posteriorly. 
