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SCIURUS LANIGERUS.— AuD. & Bach. 



Woolly Squibeel. 



PLATE XXVII. Natural size. 



Sc. migratorii magnitudine ; pilis longis et lanosis ; cauda arapla, vil- 

 losa vixque disticha ; naso, auriculis, pedibusque pene nigris ; vellere 

 supra ex cinereo fusco ; subtus dilute fusco. 



CHARACTERS. 



Size of Sciurus migratorius ; hair, long and woolly ; tail, large and 

 bushy ; nose, ears, and feet, nearly black ; upper surface, grizzly dark gray, 

 and brown ; under parts, pale brown. 



STNONYME. 

 SciuRDS LANtGEEHS, Aud. and Bach., Journal of the Acad. Nat. Sc, Philad., 1841, p. 100. 



DESCEIPTION. 



Head, short ; forehead, arched ; nose, blunt ; clothed with soft hair ; 

 whiskers, longer than the head; eyes, large ; ears, large, broad at base, 

 ovate. 



Body, stout, covered with long and woolly hairs, which are much 

 longer and a little coarser than those of the Northern gray squirrel. 



Legs, stout ; feet, of moderate size ; claws, strong, compressed, arched 

 and sharp. The third toe, longest ; a blunt nail in place of a thumb. 

 Palms, naked ; toes, hairy to the extremity of the nails. 



Tail, long and bushy, and the hairs long and coarse. 



Incisors, dark orange on the outer surface ; the head, both on the upper 

 and lower surface, as far as the neck, the ears, whiskers, fore-legs to the 

 shoulder, feet, and inner surface of hind-legs, black ; with a few yellow- 

 ish-brown hairs intermixed. The long fur on the back is for half its 



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