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SCIURUS CINEREUS.— Linn., Gmel. 



CAT-SaUIBKEL. 



PLATE XVII.— Natural size. 



S. corpore robusto, S. capistratus minore, S. migratorio majore ; cruri- 

 bus paullum curtis ; naso et auribus nunquam albis ; cauda corpore 

 paullo longiore. 



CHARACTERS. 



A little smaller than the fox squirrel, (S. capistratus,) larger than the 

 northern gray squirrel, {S. migratorius ;) body, stout ; legs, rather short ; 

 nose and ears, never white ; tail, a little shorter than the body. 



SYNONYMES. 



SciDRDs CiNERECs, Ray, Quad., p. 215, A.D. 1693. 

 Cat-Squirrel, Catesby, Carolina, vol. ii., p. 74, pi. 74, A.D. 1771. 



" " Kalm's Travels, vol. ii., p. 409, English trans. 



" " Pennant's Arctic Zoology, vol. i., p. 119, 1784. 

 SciDRUS CiNEREUs, Linn., Gmel., —^ 1788. 

 Fox-Squirrel, (S. vulpinus) Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 138. 

 Cat-Sqdirrel, " " " " " " vol. ii., p. 129. 

 SciuRus Cinereus, Appendix to American Edition of McMurtrie's Translation of Cuvier'a 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. i., p. 433. 



" " Bach, Monog. Zoological Society, 1838. 



Vulco, Fox- Squirrel, of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, distinct from the 



Fox-Squirrel (S. capistratus,) of the southern States. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Head, less elongated than that of S. capistratus, (the fox-squirrel,) and 

 incisors rather narrower, shorter, and less prominent, than in that spe- 

 cies. Ears broad at base and nearly round, thickly clothed on both sur- 

 faces with hair ; behind the ears the hairs are longer in winter than 

 during summer, and in the former season, extend beyond the margin of 

 the ear. Whiskers, numerous, longer than the head ; neck, short ; body, 

 stouter than that of S. capistratus, or any known species of Squirrel pe- 

 culiar to our continent. Fur, more woolly, and less rigid than in S. ca- 



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