THE PALM SQUIRREL. 
Scturus PALMARUM. Linn. Var. 
Autuouen the curious little animals figured above 
differ most completely in colour from the Palm Squirrel 
in its ordinary state, there can be no doubt that they 
are nothing more than very remarkable, perhaps unique, 
varieties of that elegant and well known species. We 
are not, however, so well satisfied with regard to the 
genus in which both it and they ought to be placed. 
They seem, as M. F. Cuvier has already remarked, to 
form the type of a new one, intermediate between the 
tree-nesting and nut-cracking Squirrels on the one 
hand, and the burrowing and frugivorous Tamias on 
the other. But until their habits and organization 
shall have been more thoroughly investigated, we deem 
it best to leave them in the group of which they origi- 
nally formed part, and with which they correspond in 
