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the region occupied by the transition zone and upper austral zone. 

 This is probably one of the animals whose range has been extended by 

 the clearing away of the heavy forests. 



Principal records. De Kay : The quotation from this author cited 

 under £. hudsonicus gymnicus refers without doubt in great part to the 

 present form. 



Fisher: " Common (at Sing Sing) " ('96, p. 197). 



Mearns : " This lively inhabitant of the forest was found at all altitudes, 

 its range extending from sea level to the highest peaks of the Catskills " 



('93 P- 352). 



I have never met with typical Sciurus hudso?iicus loquax in New York. 

 Specimens which I took at Peterboro, Madison co., have been identified 

 by Mr Outram Bangs as intermediates between this form and true 

 hudsonicus. 



Mr Savage writes, " The red squirrel is found in almost every piece 

 of woodland near Buffalo. I have recently learned of a curious albino 

 family of these animals that seems worthy of record. Mr Henry Urban 

 (grocer, cor. Oak and Genesee st.) has a beautiful albino that has been 

 in his possession since 1888. He says that in that year Mr John Berg- 

 told of Bowmansville, Erie co. captured an adult female and three young, 

 all of which he kept alive. The adult and two of the young were perfect 

 albinos, the other young one was normal in color. Mr Urban saw the 

 family when alive and asked Mr Bergtold to give him any of the white 

 animals that might die. Soon afterward he received the specimen that 

 he now has." 



Mr Helme states that the red squirrel is not found on Long Island. 



Sciurus carolinensis leucotis (Gapper) Northern gray squirrel 



1830 Sciurus leucotis Gapper, Zool. journ. 5: 206. 



1842 Sciurus niger De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 90 



(part). 

 1842 Sciurus leucotis De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia, p. 57 



(part). 

 1877 Sciurus carolinensis var. leucotis Allen, Monogr. N. Am. 



Rodentia. p. 701. 

 1884 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. 



Trans 2 : 121. 

 1896 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Fisher, The Observer. 7 : 197. 

 1898 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 



9 Sept. 1898. 10:340. 

 1898 Sciurus carolinensis leucotis Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 353. 



