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localities: — Germany, Marxhcim, Bavaria, 5; Blumenthal 

 Hannover, 2 ; Marbur^^, Hessen-Nassau, 2 ; Ilsenburg 

 Saxony, 7; Magdeburg, Saxony, 1; Wernegerode, Saxony, 1 

 Strass, near Burglieim, Scliwaben, 8 ; Niesky, Silesia, 1 

 Rudolstadt, TiiUringeii, 4 ; Ummerstadt, Tliuringen, 12 

 Neustadt, Wicd, 4 : Aiisiria-Uungary, llaida, Bohemia, 1 

 Karlsbad, Boliemia, 1 ; Hatszeg, Hungary, 1 : Roumanian 

 Bustenari, 5. 



Remarks. — This is the bright-coloured squirrel of Central 

 Europe, ranging from Germany eastward through Austria- 

 Hungary to lloumania. In Switzerland it apparently inter- 

 grades with S. vulgaris italicus, in which the brown jjhase is 

 dominant, but the exact relationship between these two forms 

 is not ytt clearly understood, and for this reason I have 

 omitted the Swiss specimens from the list of material examined. 

 To this animal and the next the name rufus has been applied 

 by Barrett-Hamilton and Trouessart, but Kerr's Sciurus vul- 

 garis rufus * is strictly a synonym of S. vulgaris vulgaris, 

 and therefore cannot be used in this sense. 



Sciurus vulgaris russus, subsp. n. 



1899. Sciurns vuh/aris rufus, Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



p. 5 (part.). Not of Kerr, ] 792. 

 1906. Sciuru.s vulqaris rufus, Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d'llist. Nat. Paris, 



xii. p. ;}U0 (part.). Not of Kerr, 1792. 



Type.— Adu\t male (skin and skull). B.M. no. 97. 11. 6. 2. 

 Dinan, Cotes-du-Nord, France, October 29, 1897. Collected 

 and presented by W. Jennings Bramley, Esq. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Sciurus vulgaris rutilans, but with 

 colour in red phase darker and less bright, the body cinnamon- 

 rufous strongly tinged with chestnut in summer, hazel f much 

 suffused with dull light smoke-grey along sides in winter; 

 tail at all seasons a light bright chestnut (Ridgway). Brown 

 ])liase infrequent, similar to that of rutilans. 



Measttre^nents. — TyP^ ' ''^'^*^^ '^'^"^^ ^^^^Y ■^^^ '"'"• ' ^^^^' 

 vertrbra) IGG; hind foot 54; ear from meatus 30. Skull: 

 condylo-ba-al length 46; zygomatic breadth 29; mastoid 

 breadth 24'(); postorbital constriction 1G"8 ; interorbital con- 

 striction 15-4 ; rostral breadth at front of nazals 7'4 ; nasal 

 15-2 ; diastema 12'4 ; mandible 31*4 ; maxillary tooth-row 

 (alveoli) 9; mandibular tooth-row (alveoli) 8*6. 



* ' Aiiinml Kiuf^dom,' p. 2C)5 (1792). 



t 111 the tjpo the exact shade of the red is slightly paler than hazel, 

 but the geiu'ral eifect produced by the light and dart aniudatious is 

 iutermediato between hazel and chestnut. 



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