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Habitat. This animal prefers the shelter of heavy coniferous forests. 

 It is however by no means confined to the woods, as it wanders freely 

 wherever attracted by congenial shelter and food supply. 



Distribution in New York. The details of the distribution of the Can- 

 adian form of Sciurus hudsonicus in New York are quite unknown. The 

 animal probably occurs throughout the large Canadian area in the 

 northern part of the state, but it is impossible at present to say exactly 

 where the transition to the southern form loquax takes place. Mr Bangs 

 has recorded a specimen taken at Peterboro, Madison county, as an 

 intermediate between the two subspecies ('96d, p. 160). 



Principal records. De Kay : " This familiar and well known species is 

 found from the arctic circle to the mountainous ranges of North Caro- 

 lina and Tennessee" ('42, p. 62). Merriam: "The red squirrel is one 

 of the commonest and best known of the mammalian inhabitants of the 

 Adirondacks, being found in all parts of the wilderness at all seasons of 

 the year " ( '84d, p. in). 



Remarks. As I have already stated the limits of the range of this 

 form of Sciurus hudsonicus in New York are very imperfectly known. 

 The northern and southern races have been only very recently recognized, 

 and the details of their ranges are yet to be worked out. De Kay clearly 

 included both forms under the name Sciurus hudsonicus, but Merriam 

 refers exclusively to the more northern subspecies. 



Scirurus hudsonicus loquax Bangs Southeastern red squirrel 



1842 Sciurus hudsonicus De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 



61 (part). 

 1896 Sciurus hudsonicus Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7 : 197. 

 1896 Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bangs. Biolog. soc. Washington. Proc. 



28 Dec. 1896. 10:161. 

 1898 Sciurus hudsonicus loqitax Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 Sep. 



1898. 10:339. 

 1898 Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 352. 



Type locality. Liberty Hill, New London co., Connecticut. 



Faunal position. Transition zone and northern edge of upper austral 

 zone. 



Habitat. " Mixed woods, groves and in fact almost everywhere ; 

 perhaps most numerous where there are large tracts of Pinus rigida, the 

 seeds of which it is very fond of" (Bangs, '96c, p. 161). 



Distribution in New York. The details of distribution of the south- 

 eastern red squirrel in New York are as little known as those of the range 

 of the Canadian subspecies. The animal undoubtedly occurs throughout 



