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SOFT-HAIRED SQUIRREL. 



hairs are tipped with gray. On the under surface, the lips and chin are 

 grayish-brown ; inner surface of the fore-legs, throat, and abdomen, 

 cinereous, lightly tinged in some places with rufous. 



DIMENSIONS. 









Inches. 



Lines 



Length of head and body 



8 



6 



" of tail (vertebrae) 



5 



6 



" " to end of hair . 



7 







Height of ear 







5 



From heel to end of nail 



2 



1 



HABITS. 







This species was procured in Upper California, near the Pacific ocean, 

 and we are obliged to confess ourselves entirely unacquainted with its 

 habits. From its form, however, we have no doubt of its having more 

 the manners of the Carolina grajf-squirrel, than those of the chickaree. 

 We may suppose that it lives on trees, and never burrows in the ground, 

 as the chickaree sometimes does. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



Our specimens were obtained in the northern part of California, near 

 the Pacific ocean. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



This species difliers so widely in all its details from S. Hudsonius, that 

 it is scarcely necessary to point out the distinctive marks by which it is 

 separated from the latter. The space occupied by the lighter colours on 

 the under surface, is much narrower than in S. Hudsonius, and there is 

 not, as in that species, any black line of separation between the colours 

 of the back and under surface. 



