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SQUIRREL. 
48, Mupson. 
4g. GREY. 
HUDSON SQ@UTERRE Lr. 
WLS... D Ud Leh GB Nari ee, 
N. B. (The ears of the American Squirrels have no tufts. 
Hudfon’s Bay Squirrel, Hi. Quad. N° 274,—Lev. Mus... 
iy ates ae Of a ferruginous colour, marked along the top> 
of the back with a line of a deeper hue: belly of a pale afh-co- 
lor, mottled with black, and divided from the fides by a dufky line :. 
tail fhorter and lefs bufhy than that of the Exropean kind ; of a ruft=- 
color, barred, and fometimes edged with.black.. 
Inhabits the pine-forefts of Hud/on’s Bay and Labrador : live upon: 
the cones: keep in their nefts the whole winter. Are found as high) 
as the Copper river ; yet do not change their colors. by the feverity 
of the winter, like the Petits gris of northern Europe and Afia, from: 
which they form a diftinét fpecies. I know of only one exception in: 
change of color in thofe of America, Sir Afbton Lever. being poffeffed 
of a.fpecimen of a milky whitenefs ; but he did not know from: 
what part of the continent it came. 
Carolina*. With the head, back, and fides, grey, white, and fer- 
ruginous, intermixed: belly white: the color divided from that of © 
the fides by a ruft-coloured line: lower part of the legs red: tail- 
brown, mixed with black, and edged with white. 
Both thefe are rather lefs than the European Squirrels. 
Hift, Quad, N° 272.—Smellie, v. 321.—Lev. Mus. 
QUIRREL. With hair of a dull grey color, intermixed with 
o black, and frequently tinged with dull yellow: belly white.. But 
they vary, the body being fometimes of a fine uniform grey. > 
* Leffer Grey Squirrel, Hiff, Quad. p. - 
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