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SCIURUS LEPORINUS— AuD. & Bach. 



Hare SauiBREL. 



PLATE XLIIL— Natural size. 



S. magnitudine S. cinereum inter et S. migratorium intermedius ; 

 Cauda corpore longiore, crassa maximeque disticha ; vellere supra ex 

 cinereo fusco ; subtus albo. 



CHARACTERS. 



Intermediate in size between the Northern gray squirrel and the cat 

 squirrel. Tail, longer than the body, large and distichous; colour, grayish- 

 brown above, white beneath. 



SYNOKYMES. 



SciURus Leporinus, Aud. & Bach., Proceedings of tlie Acad, of Nat. Sci., Pliiladelphia, 

 1841, p. 101. 



DESGBIPTION, 



Head, of moderate size ; nose, blunt, covered with short hairs ; fore- 

 head, arched ; eyes, large ; whiskers, numerous, extending to the ears ; 

 ears, broad at base, rounded at the edges, and forming an obtuse angle 

 at the extremity, clothed with sharp hairs on both surfaces. Body, stout, 

 covered by a coat of thick but rather short hair, coarser than that of the 

 Northern gray squirrel ; limbs, large, and rather long ; tail, distichous, 

 but not very bushy. 



Teeth, orange ; whiskers, black ; nose, dark brown ; ears, light brown j 

 behind the ears, a tuft of soft cotton-like, whitish fur. The hairs of 

 the back are cinerous at the roots, then light brown, and are tipped 

 with brown and black, giving it so much the colour of the English hare 

 that we determined to borrow from it our specific name. On the sides, 

 the colour is a shade lighter than on the back ; the tail, which, from 

 the broad white tips of the hair, has a white appearance, is brown at 

 the roots, q,nd three times annulated with black. The upper lips, chin, 



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