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Subgenus NEOSCIURUS Trouessart. 



2 — 2 

 Premolars normally -^;— ; nasals narrowed posteriorly and not 



extending to posterior end of premaxillaries ; zygomata ascending 

 obliquely; molar series relatively large. 



Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin. 

 Southern Gray Squirrel. 



[Sciurus] carolinensis Gmel., Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 148. 



Sciurus carolinensis Kennicott, Agr. Rept. for 1856, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 



1857, p. 66 (Illinois). Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), 



p. 188 (Iowa). Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XXVI, 1894, p. 6 (Kentucky). 



Jackson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 71 (Missouri). Hahn, Ann. 



Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 361 (Indiana). 



Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, p. 58 (Tennessee, Mississippi, etc.). 

 Sciurus carolifiensis fuliginosus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), 



p. 196 (Tennessee). 



Type locality — Carolina. 



Distribution — Southern half of eastern United States from the edge 

 of the plains, ranging from northern Florida and northern Louisiana 

 north to southern Hlinois, southern Indiana and Virginia. Replaced 

 in the North and South by other races. 

 Description — General appearance grayish, tinged with pale rusty 

 brown on middle of back, on sides behind the fore legs, on ears and 

 about the face and head ; under parts white or whitish ; soles of feet 

 usually naked; hairs of tail pale tawny brown at base, banded with 

 black and broadly tipped with white. Animals of this species 

 usually have two premolars on each side of upper jaw. 

 Measurements — Total length, about 18.25 "in. (4^2 mm.); tail verte- 

 brae, 8.50 in. (215 mm.); hind foot, 2.50 in. (64 mm.). 

 The Southern Gray Squirrel occurs within our limits in the southern 

 portion of Illinois. The Field Museum collection contains specimens 

 from Olive Branch, Alexander County, but it probably occurs at least 

 as far north as the south central part of the state. As would be ex- 

 pected, specimens from northern Illinois are often more or less inter- 

 mediate between this form and S. c. leucotis, but approach nearer the 

 latter. Its habits are apparently the same as those given for the 

 Northern Gray Squirrel, except that it is less migratory, as would be 

 expected under milder climatic conditions and a consequent less variable 

 food supply. 



Specimens examined from Illinois : 

 Illinois — Olive Branch, Alexander Co., i ; Hancock Co., 1 = 2. 



