[From Bulletin U. S. Geol and Geogr. Survey, Vol. IV, No. 4, p. 905, foot-note.] 



*P. S. SCIUBUS RUFONIGER, Pucheran. Since the paper on Sciuri passed 

 out of my hands I have received, through the kindness of Mr. E. R. Alston, 

 one of the types of his Sciurus rufoniger, indorsed on the label, " Compared 

 with Pucheran's type in Paris Museum. E. R. A. April, 1878." This speci- 

 men, as shown by the sexual organs, is a fully adult male, though scarcely 

 five and a half inches long, and hence cannot be regarded as an immature ex- 

 ample of S. deppei, the possibility of which is above suggested. In coloration 

 it differs little from frequent examples of S. hoffmanni. The tail, however, is 

 relatively much shorter, the size nearly one half less, and it has two upper 

 premolars (Alston) instead of one. In this last feature, as well as in size, 

 proportions, and coloration, it finds a near affine in S. pusillus. J. A. A. 

 November, 23, 1878. 



[* NOTE. The above was received too late for insertion in its proper 

 place, the Bulletin having been worked to p. 887. ED.] 



