66 SCIURUS. 



Geogr. Distr. Formerly from northern Virginia to southern New 

 England ; now from mountains of West Virginia northward into west- 

 ern Pennsylvania. 



133. Sciurus niger Linnaeus. 



Sciurus niger Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 64. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. 

 Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 51, fig. 10. Zool. Ser. 



Sciurus cinereus Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 64. (Part.) 

 . Sciurus vulpinus Gmel., Syst. Nat., i, 1788, p. 147. 



Sciurus capistratus Bosc, Ann. Mus. Paris, i, 1808, p. 281. 

 Black Fox Squirrel. 



Type locality. South Carolina? 



Geogr. Distr. Virginia to Florida east of the Alleghanies; and on 

 the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana. 



Subgenus F. Otosciurus. 



134. Sciurus aberti Woodhouse. 



Sciurus aberti Woodh., Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1852, p. 

 220. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 57, fig. 13. Zool. Ser. 

 Sciurus dorsalis Woodh., Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1852, p. 

 no. (nee Gray.) 

 Abert's Squirrel. 



Type locality. San Francisco Mountains, Coconino County, Ari- 

 zona. 



Geogr. Distr. New Mexico, Arizona, and mountains of Colorado. 



a. Sciurus aberti miinus Merriam. 



Sciurus aberti mimus Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 1904, 

 p. 130. 

 Mimic Squirrel. 



Type locality. Hall Peak, Cimarron Mountains, New Mexico. 



Geiil. Char. Similar to 5. aberti, but paler on upper parts, and 

 red dorsal area nearly obsolete; tail paler; ear tufts pale fulvous. 



Measurements. Total length, 485 ; tail vertebrae, 215; hind foot, 70. 



b. Sciurus aberti fcrrras True. 



Sciurus aberti concolor True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1894, p. 241. 



Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 57. 



Zool. Ser. 

 Sciurus aberti ferreus True, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, 1900, 



p. 183. 



