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MONOGUAPHS OF NOllTH AMEllICAX RODENTIA. 



Taolr XLIV.— /.(»< of tpeclment examined of BciURUS BOOTlllf. 



SCIURUS HYPOPYRRHUS Wagler. 

 Fire-Bellied Sqalrrol. 



Sciiirut hypoptirrhuii Waolkh, Isis, ISll, 510. — "Waoner, Mllnchcn. gel. Anzeig. vii, 20"; Siippl. Scbre- 



Ii«r'H 8iiugut. iii, lb4;i, 167, pi ccxiii C— Scill.NZ, Syn. Mam. ii, 1845, 20.— Bairi>, Maui. N. Amer. 



18."i7, 282.— De 9aI!88UHK, Rev. et Mur. do Zool. 1881, 4. 

 £ciiirti« nigretcetit Bknnrtt. Proc. Zoiil. Soo. Loud, i, 18X1, 41 (a melaniatio form).— Baciiman, Pnic. 



Zoul. Snc. Lond. vi, lg:)8, 90; Charlosworth'o Mag. Nat. Hi8t. iii, 1839, XM ; Sillimaii's Amer. 



Jonr. 8ci. and Arts, xxxvii, 18:19, 30(i.— Waoner, Suppl. Sobrtsber's Siinget. iii, 184:!, 174.— 



SciilNit, Syiiop. Mam. ii, 1845, 19.— Auduuon &, Baciiman, Qnad. N. Am. iii, 1804, 74, pi. 



cxvii. — Daird, Mam. N. Am. 1H57,280. 

 ifacroxui iiii/t'eacrnnGiiAY, Ann.aud Mng. Nat. lliat. :}d Her. xx, 1867,424. 



Sciurm rarirgalolda OoiuiY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1839, 117 ; Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist, v, 1840, 62. 

 iScturiM gritcocaudatiu Gray, Zoiil. Voy. Siilphnr, 1844, 34, pi. xiii, fig. 2 (animal), and pi. xvlii, flgs. 7-13 



(HknII and teotb). 

 Sciurui donalit Gray, Proc.Ziiol. 8 :o. Land. 1848, 1:<R, pi. vii (white, with a broad black donal atripo). — 



Sci.ATKR, Profl. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1870, 6/0. 

 Macroxuf coUiai •' var. 1 " Gray, Ann. and Mng. Nat. Hist. 3d iwr. xx, 1867, 431. 

 Mttcrotut donalit Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d aer. xx, 1867, ^•S. 

 MacroxHt maurui Gray, Aim. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d aer. xx, 1867, 425 (Ouxaca, Max.). 

 MacnxM melaaiaGRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 1807, 425. 



Specific chars. — Size largo ; form rntlicr slender ; enrs high nnd nar- 

 row ; tail very long, tlie tail-vertebrae alone equalling the length of the heail 

 and body. Length of body 10.50 to 12.50; tail-vcrtcbri£ the same; tail tu 



