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MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



Table LIX. — Lift of tpecimem txamtHed of Scii'Ri'8 okrbardi. 



* In Maaeum of CompuritlTe Zoology, Cambridge, 



SCIURUS VARIABILIS Geoffroy. . 

 FeroTian Squirrel* 



Sciuriu variabilii I. Okoffrot, fitnd. Zool. (Gudrin's Mag. de Zool.), 1832, i, pi. iv.— TscnuDi, Fauna 



ruriiaiia, 1844-4fi, 105, pi. x.— ScHlsE, 8yn. Maai. ii, 1*»5, 20. 

 Sciurut langtdorffi Bra.ndt, Mdm. Acad. des. Scl. de St. PtStenb. 6o s6r. Matb. Pbyn. et Nat. lii, 9d pt. 183r>, 



i-a, pi. xi.— Waonkr, Snppl. Scbreber'g Siinget. iii, 1843, 184 ; Abband. d. K.-B. Akad. d. 



Wisecnscb. v, 1650, 273.— ScuiNZ, Syn. Mam. ii, 1845,-16.— OlEBEL, Saugct. 1855, 653. 

 Macrotttt langadorffl Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. xx, 18S7, 421^. 

 Sdarua ignirenlris N.VTTERE11, M.SS.— Wao.vf.r, Wiegm. Ar, b, f. Natiirgescb. 1842, i, SfiO ; Abband. d. 



K.-n. Akad. d. Wiiwenscb. v, 1850, 275.— SciliNZ, Synop. Mam. ii, 1645, 22 (rroni Wagner).— 



D'OiiuiGNY &, Gervais, Voy. dans TAmiSr. ni^rid. iv, 2d pt. 1847, 24 (Uolivia). — Gikuel, 



Siinget. 1855, 054. 

 Sciurut pyrrhonolut Nattkrkr, MSS.- Waoneb, Wiegm. Areb. f. NaturgcRch. 1848, i, 360 ; Abband. d. K.-B. 



Akad. d. Wissensch. v, 1850, 277.— SciiiNZ, Synop. Mam. il, 1845, 22 (from Wagner). 

 Sciurut ilramiiieu» Eydoux, ZmoI. Voy. Bonite, 1844, 37, pi. ix.— TscilUDi, Faana Pernnna, 1844-46, 159. 

 Sciurut tricolor PoKPria, MSS. — Tsciiudi, Funnn Peruana, 1844-46, 156, pi. xi.— Waqnkr, Abband. d. 



K.-B. Akad. d. Wisseuscb. v, 1850, 279. 

 Macroxui fumigatut Gray, Adu. and Ma^;. Nut. Hist. 3d aer. xx, 1867, 428. 



Specific chars. — Size largo ; length of body about 11.00; of tail-vertebrJB 

 10.00 ; to end of hairs 13.2.1. Pelage short, harsh, sparse, the ventral surface 

 very tliinly haired. Ears long and narrow ; tail very full and bushy. Above, 

 more or less varied with black and fulvous or red ; red often, but sometimes 

 black, being the prevalent tint; beneath, abruptly paler, yellowish-white, 

 varying from nearly white to rufous; top of the head often darker. Basal por- 

 tion of the tail usually black, or black sliglitly mixed with fulvous or rufous; 

 apical and middle portions generally washed witli golden or rutbus, the tail 

 being often wholly of this tint toward the tip. Tiie hairs "re generally ful- 

 vous at the extreme base, with the greater po.t ot incir length black, and 

 tipped with golden or red, the black extending basally on the ajMcal portion 

 of the tail, but narrowing in extent till it is wholly concealed by the 



