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the region occupied by the transition zone and upper austral zone. 
This is probably one of the animals whose range has been extended by 
the clearing away of the heavy forests. 
Principal records. De Kay: The quotation from this author cited 
under S. hudsonicus gymnicus refers without doubt im great part to the 
present form. 
Fisher: ‘“ Common (at Sing Sing)” (’96, p. 197). 
Mearns: ‘This lively inhabitant of the forest was found at all altitudes, 
its range extending from sea level to the highest peaks of the Catskills ” 
(98 p. 352). 
I have never met with typical Sciwrus hudsonicus loguax in New York. 
Specimens which I took at Peterboro, Madison co., have been identified 
by Mr Outram Bangs as intermediates between this form and true 
hudsonicus. 
Mr Savage writes, ‘The red squirrel is found in almost every piece 
of woodland near Buffalo. I have recently learned of a curious albino 
family of these animals that seems worthy of record. Mr Henry Urban 
(grocer, cor. Oak and Genesee st.) has a beautiful albino that has been 
in his possession since 1888. He says that in that year Mr John Berg- 
told of Bowmansville, Brie co. captured an adult female and three young, 
all of which he kept alive. The adult and two of the young were perfect 
albinos, the other young one was normal in color. Mr Urban saw the 
family when alive and asked Mr Bergtold to give him any of the white 
animals that might die. Soon afterward he received the specimen that 
he now has.” 
Mr Helme states that the red squirrel is not found on Long Island. 
Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Gapper) (Vorthern gray squirrel 
1830 Sciurus leucotis Gapper, Zool. journ. 5: 206. 
1842 Sciurus niger De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p. go 
(part). 
1842 Sciurus leucotis De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. p. 57 
(part). 
1877 Sciurus carolinensis var. Jleucotis Allen, Monogr. N. Am. 
Rodentia. p. 701. 
1884 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. 
iransi2 suze 
1896 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Fisher, The Observer. 7: 197. 
1898 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bul. 
g Sept. 1898. 10: 340. 
1898 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Mearns, U.S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21: 353. 
