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* la Museum of Comparative ZoQlogj, Cambridge, Uaat. 



SCIURUS AUREIGASTER F. Cuvicr. 

 Bed-bclIIca Squirrel. 



&iiirti< aurtoganttr F. CiiviKR, Hiat. lies Mam, ill, Itvr. lix, 1829 (with a flKiire).— Daciiman, CharleBwnrtirH 

 Mag. Not. IliHt. iii, 1H38, l.VJ.— Wagneh, Siippl. ScbrebeHii Sitnget. iii, lH4:i, 16,'i.— SciiiNZ, 

 8,vnop. Maiu, 184.'>, 7,— Kairp, Mam, N, Am. IWl, Wi (from CuTi«r),— Oray, Ann, unil MnK, 

 Nat. HiKt. 3d ser. zx, 1H67, 4i2:l. 



f " ficiurm lencogmlei F. CuviKR, Mam. i, 1831, 300." 



Soiurua ferrugMrenirit At'DUDOx & Uaciiman, Proo. Aca<1. Nat. Sci, Phila. 1841, 101 ; Jniirn. Acad. Nat, 

 8ei. Phila. viii, 1848, 313; Quad. N. Am. i, 184U, 1J92, pi. xxxviii.— UairI), Mum. N, Am. IH'iT, 

 281 (from Audnbon and Baobman). 



JIfdrrojiK aureogailer Ouay, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hiat. 3d s«r. xx, 18<i7, 423. 



MuvrosuH mono Gray, Auii. and Maj;. Nat. Iliat. .3d ser. xx, 1807, 424. ' .■ : 



Hcureuil de la Ca/(/briiie ou 4 vmtre dor6, V. C(i viEn, Hint, des Mam. iii, llvr. lix, 1829. 



Specific chars. — Head and body about 10.50; tail-vcrtebra3 8.50 to 9.00; 

 tail to end of hairs about 11,50, rather longer than head and body. Ptjlagfl soil 

 and full. Above, including the head, clear dark gray ; beneath, deep reddish- 

 orange, which *l)lends with the gray of the sides, and often extends high up on 

 the sides at the shoulders, sometimes meeting on the back, where, however, it 

 is generally more or less mixed with gray. Sides of the head and chin light 

 gray. Tail tricolored below, centrally deep reddish-orange, then black, and 

 white-edged ; upper surface mixed black and white. 



The color varies greatly in different individuals, but less so than in moint 

 of the other Mexican Squirrels, the chief variation being in the direction.of 

 meliinism. The gray, however, varies from whitish-gray to dark iron-gray, 



