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Tablb XLIX. — List of ipeelmcna cxamincil of Sciprus aukeioaster. 



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SCIURUS LEUCOPS (Gray) Allen. 

 fiolden-bellled Squirrel. 



SciuriK avrtoQMlrr Oeoffroy, Tojago de la YdnnB, Znul. 185.5, 156, pis. x, xi (not of F. Cavler, 1839). 

 1 Sdwnti typozanlhui Liciitenhtkin, MS. (see Qeoffroy, 1. c. 158). 

 ilacrozui griamJUnm$ Gray, Ann. and tln^. Nat. Hist. :!d ser. xx, 18C7, 427. 

 Uttcnzui leuoopt Oiur, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d sor. xx, 1807, 427. 



Specific chars. — Length of body and head about 12.50; tail-vcrtebraj 

 9.75 ; tail with hairs 12.00 to 13.00, about equal to the length of the head and 

 body, but narrow. Pelage full and soft, .\bovc, gray, vaiying from whitish- 

 gray to dark iron jiay, generally with a lavge patch of yeilowish-rusty on the 

 nape and a large area of the same culur on the rump; beneath, pure white, 

 yellowish-white, or deep golden-yellow. Pelage of the whole upper surface 

 generally with a broad subterminal band of yellowish or golden, sometimes 

 showing faintly through the surface. 



Of three specimens from Tehuantepec, Mexico, two pre white below, 

 faintly stained with yellow, while the other has the lower parts deep orange- 

 yellow. One (No. 9432) has the nape-patch chestnut and sharply defined ; 

 the rump-patch is faintly developed. In another (No. 9434), the nape-patch 



is well defined but paler, and the rump-patch is also only faintly indicated. 

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