■ SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



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furnished with long crooked nails. Tail long, often very vil- 

 lose ; two pectoral teats, and six ventral. 



This genus has been divided into groups distinguished 

 by a flat cylindrical tail, and by the presence or absence of 

 cheek-pouches. 



644. 1. S. Vulgaris (Common Squirrel.) Bright red; 

 ears terminated by a pencil of hairs. 



Sciurus of the Ancients. Sciurus Vulgaris, Linn. S7/.st. 

 Nat. 86. 



Icon. Schreh. tab. 212 ; and most naturalists. Skull, Fisch. 

 Ade. Zool.f.^,f.3. 



Inhabits Europe and the north of Asia: 



Obs. Several varieties of the Common Squirrel have been 

 noticed ; indeed the colours are various, from red through 

 different shades of cinereous, even to black. In high la- 

 titudes they vary with the season, and become bluish ash- 

 colour in winter. 



.645. 2. S. Alpinus (Alpine Squirrel.) Deep brown va- 

 ried with yellowish-white on the back ; beneath white ; 

 feet yellow, with a yellow band separating the white of the 

 neck and the grey of the outside of the limbs from the 

 brown of the back ; hairs of the tail very long, black, and 

 rugged, with yellow at the base ; ears ending in a tuft of 

 hairs. 



Sciurus Alpinus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. 



Icon. F. Cuv. I. c. 



Inh^b. Pyrenees. 



646. 3. S. Maximus (Great Squirrel.) Upper part of 

 the head, flanks, and legs, purpuresccnt reddish-brown, 

 with a transverse stripe on the shoulders ; lower part of 

 the back, loins, and tail, black ; under part of body and in- 

 terior of limbs pale yellow ; nearly as big as a Cat. 



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