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such a change in forest conditions where gymnicus was once found in Pa. that 



it may soon become difficult to secure anything but loqtutx in those regions. 



Measurements (^gymnicus). — Total length, 290 mm. (11)^ in.); tail vert., 



120 (4^); hind foot, 44 (i?<)j {loquax) iit, (i2>^) ; 130 (5>^) ; 47 



Southeastern Chickaree or Red Squirrel. Sciurus hudsonicus loquax 

 Bangs. 



Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bangs, Proceedings Biolog. Society, Washing- 

 ton, vol. 10, p. 161. 



Type locality. — Liberty Hill, New London Co., Connecticut. 



Faunal distribution. — " Deciduous forests of the Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones of the eastern United States" (fide Miller). See foot-note 

 under S. h. gynmicus. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Abounding everywhere below the Canadian 

 zone, where forests, groves or private grounds afford necessary shelter and 

 food. Semi-domesticated in some towns and villages and becoming a pest 

 on account of its robbery of birds' nests. Ever persecuting, and said to de- 

 stroy, the Gray Squirrel. By no means confined to deciduous forests but 

 rather preferring pine lands, where they are most numerous in southern and 

 eastern N. J. In this last particular I must take exception to Miller's re- 

 striction of their habitat, as above quoted. 



Description of species. — See antea, under S. h. gymnicus. 



Western Fox Squirrel. Sciurus rufiventer E. Geoffroy. 



1803. Sciurus rufiventer E. Geoffroy, Catalog. Museum d' Histoire Natur- 

 elle, p. 176. 



Type locality. — New Orleans, Louisiana. 



Faunal distribution. — Upper Austral and Lower Transition zones from the 

 Allegheny Mountains (western base) to the Mississippi Valley. 



Distribution in Fa. — Having examined no specimens from Pa. west of the 

 AUeghanies,* I cannot verify the probable presence of this form in extreme 

 southwestern Pa. as implied by Miller in his Key to Mammals of N. East 

 N. America, p. 87, where he says it occupies the Transition and Upper 

 Austral zones of " the region immediately west of the AUeghanies." That 

 the fox squirrel was found in this region is well established, as the succeed- 

 ing records will show. It is probably extinct there now, though there is a 

 possibility of some old mounted specimen being found in a condition which 

 would enable us to decide whether typical rufiventer belongs in this list. 



* See however under list of American species introduced into Pa. and N. J. 



