HARE SQUIRREL. SSI- 



been found south of Missouri, and that S. cinereus is not found west of 

 the Mississippi. Indeed the geographical range of the latter terminates 

 several hundred miles to the eastward of that river, and it would be 

 contrary to all our past experience, that a species existing in one part of 

 our continent should be found in another, separated by an extent of 

 several thousand miles of intermediate country, in no portion of which 

 is it known to exist. 



