128 SCIURUS. 
91. melania (Sciurus), Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx 
LOO7..). 4215. 
Gray’s BLAcK SQUIRREL. 
Type locality. Point Burica, Costa Rica. 
Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica, Chiriqui, Panama. (Bangs.) 2,000 
feet altitude. 
Color. Back dark chocolate; rest of pelage and tail black. 
Measurements. Total length, 500; tail vertebrze, 260; hind foot, 
O03) eateeo: 
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92. boothiz (Sciurus), Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, 
Pp. 139. 
richardsont Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., rst Ser., x, 1842, p. 264. 
(nec Bachman.) 
juscovartegatus Schinz., Syn. Mamm., 11, 1845, p. 15. 
hypopyrrhus Alston, Proc. Zo6l. Soc., 1878, p. 662. (Part. Hon- 
duras specimens.) 
HONDURAS SQUIRREL. 
Type locality. Wonduras. San Pedro Sula? 
Geogr. Distr. Humid coast forests of northern Honduras and 
border of Guatemala. 
Genl. Char. Pelage thin; hair coarse; tail nearly as long as head 
and body, narrow. 
Color. Above grizzled grayish brown, occasionally tinged with 
reddish; chin and sides of head grayish brown; outside of arms and 
legs, hands and feet dark grayish brown, sometimes nearly black; 
tail at base like back, remainder above black, washed with white, 
beneath dark grizzled brown, tinged with yellowish and bordered 
with black and edged with white; ears with black border. 
Measurements. Total length, 524; tail vertebra, 255; hind foot, 
63. 
a.—belti (Sciurus), Nelson, Proc. Wash. Acad. Scien., 1, 1899, p. 78. 
EScONDIDO RIVER SQUIRREL. 
Type locality. Escondido River, fifty miles above Bluefields, 
Nicaragua. 
Geogr. Distr. East coast region of Nicaragua, north to Segovia 
River, Honduras. 
Genl. Char. Similar to S. boothie, but under parts rusty rufous, 
and rusty yellowish hands and feet. 
Color. Above, including nose and base of tail, grizzled grayish 
brown, washed with black; chin and sides of head yellowish brown 
to brownish gray; under parts rusty rufous; outer side of arms and 
legs suffused with rusty yellow; hands and feet rusty yellowish and 
