437 



The description given, like that of the •' Small Gray Squirrel," clearly 

 indicates a form of the iS. hudsonius group, while the statement that the 

 belly is "'pale-red" would seem to fix the species as the same as that 

 afterward successively described under the four different names above 

 quoted. 



'•'' Oround Sqiiirreiy 



Allen, ii. 175.— Eees, 4to, 469.— Rees, 8vo, iii. 38.- M'Vickar, ii. 347. 

 f Tamias toicnsendii, Bachm., Journ. Phila. Acad. viii. 1839, 6S. 

 f Tamias MndsU, Gray, Ann. Mag. Is^. H. x. 1842, 264. 

 ? Tamias cooperi^ Baird, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1855, 334. 



The authors do not distinguish this animal from the common species 

 of the United States, and give no description; it is only therefore to be 

 I^resumed, from the locality, that they had this species of Tamias in 

 view. 



" Barhing Squirrel,^' 



Allen, ii. 175.— Eees, 4to, 469.— Rees, 8vo, iii. 38.— M'Vickar, ii. 348. 

 Arctomys ludoviciana, Ord, Guthrie's Geog. 2d. Am. ed. ii. 1815, 292, 

 302 (based on Lewis and Clarke). 



Cynomys socialis, C. grisea, Rafinesque, Am. Monthly, ii. 1817, 45. 

 Arctomys missouriensis, Warden's Descr. U. S. v. 1820, 627. 

 Arctomys latrans, Harl., Fn. Amer. 1825, 306. 

 Cynomys ludoviciaims of recent authors. 



A full and excellent account of this species is given by the authors, 

 wbo seem to have been the first to describe this species of Cynomys^ as 

 well as the foregoing one; and upon their account, quoted at length, 

 Ord based his name. 



" SewelleV' 



Allen, ii. 176.— Rees, 4to, 470.— Rees, Svo, iii. 39.— M'Vickar, ii. 348. 

 Anisonyx riifa^ Rafinesque, Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 1817, 45. 

 Aplodontia leporina^ Richardson, Zool. Journ. iv. 1829,335; Fn. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 1829, 211, pi. 18, 0., f. 7-14, and of recent authors. 



This curious animal, fully and pertinently described by Lewis and 

 Clarke, was soon after named Anisonyx rufa by Rafinesque, whose name 

 may require to stand, as it is based entirely upon Lewis and Clarke, 

 though the generic term Anisonyx arose in a misunderstanding of his, 

 and rather bears upon Cynomys than upon Aplodontia. 



^^BraroJ^ 



Allen, ii. 177. — Rees, 4to, 471. — Rees, 8vo, iii. 40. — Blairean, M'Vickar, 

 ii, 349. 



American Badger, Pennant, Arct. Zool. i. 1784, 71. 



Meles taxus, var. americanus, Bodd., Elench. Anim. i. 1784, 136. 



Ursus l-abradorius, Gra., Syst. ISfat. i. 1788, 102. 



Meles jefersonii, Harl., Fu. Amer. 1825, 309 (based on Lewis and 

 Clarke). 



Under the term " Braro," evideutly a corruption of the French 

 "blaireau," and so corrected in the M'Vickar edition, the authors very 

 fully describe the Badger, already well known, however, by previous 

 accounts, though in 1823 a special name was based by Harlan upon 

 their description. 



