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grosser and more clumsy make than our common squirrels." From this 

 time it became for many years either lost or confounded with other spe- 

 cies by naturalists. Desmarest under the name of cinereus entirely mis- 

 took the species, and applied it to two others, the Carolina gray, and the 

 northern gray squirrel. Harlan copied the article, adopting and per- 

 petuating the error. Godman by the aid of Le Conte as it appears to 

 us, (see a reference to his letter — Amer. Nat. Hist. vol. ii., p. 129,) was 

 enabled to correct this error, but fell into another, describing one spe- 

 cies under two names, and omitting the southern fox-squirrel (S. capistra- 

 tus) altogether, assigning its habits to his <S. vulpinus. In our monograph 

 of this genus, 1838 ; we endeavoured to correct the errors into which au- 

 thors had fallen in regard to this species, time and further experience, 

 have only strengthened us in the views we then expressed. 



