SOIUIUD^— SCIURU8 CAKOLINliNSIS VAll. LKUUOTf3. 



701 



.Sfiiinn rulpiiDin DeKav, N. Y. Zuiil. i, 184'-J, .W (winter |)iiliij;<i)' 



Sciuriit migratoriuf Audi'iion & H.vchman, QhoiI. N. Amcr. i, I84!),a'i'>r>, ])!. xxxv.— KFNNicorr, U. S. I'lit- 

 ont Oftici! Hep. A(jriciil. for ISWi, 1857, (12, pi. vi.— Ad.v.ms, Field niid Koreot Uanibles, 1H7:I, 

 !J96 (western and xontliweBtern parts of New Ilrunswiek). 



SoiHr»t atrotinensiii Godm.vn, Anier. Nut. Hist, il, I82(i, i:tl.— Douuiirv, („'«l). Nat, Hist, il, ISW, 240, pi, 

 xxi.— Baihd, Mam. N. Anier., 18.")", 850, pi. xlv, li^. a (nknll) (in part; "larger northern " 

 and "black and dusky" varieties only).— Tihimas, Trans. 111. .State AKricnlt. Hoc. W, IHfit), 

 656.— Hau,, Cauud. Nat. and Oeol. 1861, :101.— IIavukn, Trans. Am. I'liil. Soe. I'liilu. xii, 

 186:), 144.— Al.I.KN, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZoOI. i, 1869,222 (Mussaelinsetts); I'roe. Iloston 8oc. 

 Nat. Hist, xiii, 1870, 188 (Iowa).- Giiay, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hitt. 3d ser. xx, 1«)7, 426 (varg. 

 "iiuijor" et " niijer"), 



Sciuriu carolinentii var. leiu^liH Am.kn, Proc. Host. Una, Nat. Hist, xvii, 1874, 287. j 



TUacroxiu tiielania Gray, Ann. aud Mu;;. Nat. Hist. :id ser. xx, 1867, 425. m., . i 



Vlir. CAKOUNEN8I8. •;,:. .. ,^„.- 



Sonthern Ora/ Squirrel. 



Stiitinit oaroliMntit Qmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 148 (b.tsod on Pennant's Leswr Orsiy Squirrel fniui 

 Carolina).- M'MunxRiK, M'Murtrie's Cuvior (Am. ed.) I, 18111, 33,1.- Baciiman, Proo. Zool. 

 Soo. Lend. 18'18, !)4; Charleaworth's Mug. Nat. Hist, ill, 18:10, 330; Anier. .Journ. Sci. and 

 Arts, xxxvii, 18,39, .304. — gciii.NZ, Synop. Mam. ii, 1845, 8.— Auui^iion & Bacilman, Quad. N. 

 Amor, i, 1849, 55, pi. vii. — f W(M)D3I0U8K, Sitgrenves's Col. and ZuFii Kiv. Kxpvd. 1853, 52 

 (Ind. Ter. and Texas). — Baiiiu, &Iam. N. Amer. 1857, 2r)(! ("small southern variety " only). — 

 Saussurk, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1801, 3 (Mexico). — Tomeh, Proo. Zoiil. 8oc. Lond. 1861, 

 282 (Ouatemalu).— GitAV, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1867, 426 (var. "minor "only).— 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Conip. Zool. ii, 1871, 176 (Florida).— Maynard, Bull. Essex Inst, iv, 1872, 

 145 (Florida). 



Sciurm mrolineuaittT, Baird, Mam. N. Amcr. 1857, 263 (Santa Catarinn, New Loon, Mex.) 



Soiunia carolineniiig var. carolinenaiB Allen, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 1874, 287. 



iSoiuriis /ii(ii7«R09U« Bachman, Proe. Z36I. 800. Lond. 1838, 96 (dusky phase); Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, iii, 1839, ,300.— Waonkh, Suppl. Sehreber's .Siiuget. iii, 1842, 176.— .SciiiNZ, Synop. Mam. 

 ii, 1845, 9.— Auduiion & Bachman, Quad. N. Anier. iii, 1853, 240, pi. oxlix, Ug. 2. 



f Sciuriu deppei Pktkrh, Monutsb. Kiinigl. Preuss. Akud. Wiss. Berlin, 1863 (1864), 654. 



Letter Gray Squirrel, Pennant, Synop. Quad. 1771, 283. 



jSciireuii grit do la Carolina, F. Cur ier, Hist, des Mamm. i, livr. — , 1819 (plate and text). 



Var. 1.EUCOTI8. 

 Northern Gray Squirrel. 

 Varietal chars. — Length of body about 10.50 inches, varying from 9 

 to 11.50; tuil-vertebrjB 8, varying from 7 to 9; tail to end of liairs 11.50, 

 varying from about 10 to 12.50. Above, whitish-giay, with a dorsal area and 

 a lateral line brownish-yellow, and with a more or less strong fulvous sufiu- 

 sloii boneath the surface of the pelage, generally more or less apparent through 

 the surface-tints; beneath, white. Varies throu' dusky and annulated 

 phaset. to intense glossy black ; rarely, in the dui phases, witi? areas of 

 yellowish-brown l»elow, more or less strongly annulate* with black. Tail 

 with the hairs yellowish-brown basally, with narrow black unnulations, and a 

 ijroad, conspicuous, subterininal 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 

 % 'oolly tuft ol' white at the base po.st-.jriorly. 



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