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 Subfamily SCIURINAE. 



Genus SCIURUS Linnaeus. 



1758. Sciurus LINNAEUS, Syst. nat., x ed., i, p. 63. Type. 

 .Sciurus vulgaris LINNAEUS. 



Subgenus ECHINOSCIURUS Trouessart. 1 



1880. Echinosciurus TROUESSART, Le naturaliste, ii, no. 37, 

 p. 292. October, 1880. Type. Sciurus hypopyrrhus WAGLER. 



* Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier. 



1829. [Sciurus, by implication] aureogaster Y. CUVIER, Hist. 



nat. mammiferes, vi, livr. LIX, pi. with text. September, 



1829. (Binomial published at end of work only, vol. vn, 



table generale et me'thodique, p. 4, 1842.) 



1885. Sciurus aureogaster TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Part.) 



TYPE LOCALITY. "California" really eastern Mexico (see 



Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, p. 38, May 9, 1899). 



According to Canon xxxvm of the American Ornithologists' 



Union code, the name aureogaster is not tenable as published in 



1829. 



* Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus (Wagler) . 



1831. sSciurus hypopyrrhus WAGLER, Oken's Isis, pp. 510- 



511. 

 1885. Sciurus hypopyrrhus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Part.) 

 1899. Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus NELSON, Proc. 



Washington acad. sci., i, p. 42. May 9, 1899. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Mexico, probably in Vera Cruz. 



1 Revised by Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, pp. 38-83. May 9, 1899. 



