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Barber's Squirrel. 



Type locality. Colonia Garcia, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Limits of range un- 

 known. 



Subgenus G. Echinosciurus. 



138. Sciurus aureigaster F. Cuvier. 



Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., vi, 1829, Livr. 

 Lix, pi. Text. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 1867, 



P- 423- 

 Sciurus niger Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, p. 417. (nee Linn.) 

 Sciurus variegatus Desm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., x, 181 7, pp. 



103-104. (nee Erxleben, 1777.) 

 Sciurus rufiventer Licht., Abh. K. Ak. Wiss. Berl., (1827), 1830, 



p. 116. 

 Sciurus leucogaster F. Cuv., Suppl. Hist. Nat. Buffon, i, 1831, 



pp. 300-301. 

 Sciurus mustelinus Aud. & Bach., Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 



1841, p. 100. 

 Sciurus ferriiginiventris! Aud. & Bach., Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. 



Phil., 1841, p. loi. 

 Sciurus aurogasier! Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Am., iii, 1851, p. 344. 

 Sciurus hypoxanthus I. Geoff., Voy. de la Venus, Zool., 1855, p. 



158. 

 Sciurus hypopyrrhus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 



1 89 1, p. 222. (nee Wagl.) 

 Sciurus leucops Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1897, 



p. 198. 

 Sciurus aureigaster Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 



F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 115, figs. 19, XXIX. Zool. 



Ser. 

 Golden-bellied Squirrel. Ardilla in Mexico. 

 Type locality. Eastern Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern Mexico from southern part of State of 

 Tamaulipas to northern side of Isthmus of Tehuantepec, through 

 State of Vera Cruz, eastern San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Puebla, and 

 northeastern Hidalgo and northern Oaxaca, up to 4,000 and 8,000 

 feet. 



a. Sciurus aureigaster hypopiirrhux (Wagler). 

 Sciurus hypopyrrhus Wagl., Isis, 183 1, p. 510. 

 Macroxus morio Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 1867, 

 p. 424. 



