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surface of the fore-legs above the knees. The feet are light gray; 

 the hairs of the tail are, for three-fourths of their length from the 

 roots, yellowish brown ; then black, edged with white ; the throat, 

 inner surface of the legs and the belly, white. 



Dimensions. in. lin. 



Length of head and body 9 6 



Tail (vertebrae) 7 4 



Tail to point of hair 9 6 



Height of ear 6 



Palm to end of middle claw 1 3 



Heel to end of middle nail 2 6 



Length of fur on the back 5 



Breadth of tail with hairs extended .... 3 



Dr. Bachman remarks that the present species has long been con- 

 founded with the Northern Gray Squirrel, but that any naturalist 

 who has had an opportunity of comparing many specimens of both, 

 and of witnessing their natural habits, cannot fail to regard them as 

 distinct species. Specimens of the former, which he had received 

 from North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, scarcely pre- 

 sented a shade of dilFerence when placed beside those of South 

 Carolina ; whilst in the Northern Gray Squirrel the great variations 

 in colour form a prominent characteristic distinction. 



As regards the geographical range of the Carolina Squirrel, Dr. 

 Bachman states it to be abundant in South CaroUna, Alabama, 

 Mississippi, and Georgia, especially in low grounds or swampy lo- 

 calities ; it is the only known species in the southern peninsula of East 

 Florida, and it also occurs, though not abundantly, in Louisiana. 

 Dr. Bachman has received it from North Carolina, and believes that 

 he has seen the species in the southern part of New Jersey. Its 

 habits he describes as very different from those of the Northern Gray 

 Squirrel : its bark is less full, but much shriller and more querulous. 

 Instead of mounting high on the trees when alarmed, it clings round 

 the trunk on the opposite side, and hides itself under the Spanish 

 mosses which are trailing around the trees. It is much less wild, 

 and consequently more readily captured than the northern species. 

 Its favourite haunts are low swampy situations, and amongst the 

 trees which overhang the streams and borders of the rivers : its nest 

 is composed of leaves and Spanish moss, and is generally placed in 

 the hollow of some cypress. In one respect, it differs from all the 

 other species of the genus, in being, to a certain extent, nocturnal 

 in its habits. Dr. Bachman has frequently observed it by moonlight 

 as actively engaged as the Flying Squirrel ; and the traveller, after 

 sunset, in riding through the woods, is often startled by its noise. 



Sciurus Collicei. For a description of this species, of which the 

 original specimen is in the Collection of the Zoological Society, 

 Dr. Bachman refers to Dr. Richardson's Appendix to Capt. Beechey's 

 Voyage. 



