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season of frost ai^ snow. It makes large hoards of nuts, acorns, and seeds ; and, in 

 consequence of this good cheer, this Squirrel is seen actively scampering about in cold 

 weather, when his hungry cousins cannot pluck up courage to leave their warm abodes 

 even in search of food. This Squirrel runs with great swiftness, and, though it cannot 

 leap as far as the migratory species, it darts along the trunk of a tree much more rap- 

 idly. Its note is a merry, shrill cMr-r-r-rr, very unlike the migratory and Fox Squirrels. 

 Like the Red Fox and some other animals, the Chickaree appears in some instances to 

 follow the settlements of the white man. Dr. Kirtland speaks of its having made its 

 appearance, about the beginning of the present century, on the Western Reserve, where 

 it is now, 1856, exceedingly abundant. It may be that this appearance of the Red 

 Squirrel is the result of the destruction of certain enemies." 



It is stated, in the Geological Survey of Ohio for 1838, that this species 

 "destroys the Black and Gray species, and also (he young of birds. I 

 have myself seen it committing its depredations on a brood of young 

 Robins." 



SciDBUS cAEOLiNENsis Gmelin. 



Var. leiwotis Allen. 



Northern Gray Squirrel. 



1792. Sciurus cinereus, Schreber, Saugt., iv, 1792, 766, pi. ccxii (nee S. 

 cinereus, Linn., 1758). — Harlan, Faun. Amer., 1825, 173. — H. 

 Smith, Griffith's Cuvier, v, 1827, 254.— Fischer, Synop. Mam., 

 1829, 352.— Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, 45.— Maximilian, 

 Weigm. Arch. f. Naturg., 1861, 66. 



1815. Sciuriis pennsylvanicus, Ord, "Guthrie's Geog. (2d Am. ed.) ii, 1815, 

 292 " (dusky phase). 



1826. Sciurus niger, Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., ii, 1826, 133 (melanistic 

 phase) (nee S. niger, Linn., 1858). — Richardson, Faun. Bor. 

 Amer., i, 1829, 191. — Gapper, Zool. Journ., v, 1830, 206.— 

 Bach., Pr(ac. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838, 96; Charlesworth's Mag 

 Nat. Hist., iii, 1839, 335 ; Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts., xxxvii, 

 1839, 307.— Emmons, Quad. Mass:, 1840, 67.— DKay, N. Y. Zool., 

 i, 1842, 60, pi. xvii, fig. 1.— Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, 

 45. — Wagner, Suppl. Schreber's Saugt., iii, 1843, 172. — Schinz, 

 Synop. Mam., ii, 1845, 9.— Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. A., i, 1849, 

 261, pi. xxxiv. — Maximilian, "Weigm. Arch. f. Naturgesch, 1861, 

 76.— Hall, Canad. Nat. and GeoL, 1861, 301. 



1826. Sciurus carolinensis, Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., ii, 1826, 131. — 

 Doughty's Cab. Nat. Hist., ii, 1832, 240, pi. xxi,— Baird, Mam. 

 N. Amer., 1867, 256, pi. xlv, fig. 2 (skull) (in part ; " larger 

 northern, and black and dusky " varieties only). — Thomas, Tr. 

 111. Agr. Soc, iv, 1860, 656.— Hall, Canad. Nat. and GeoL, 1861, 

 301.— Hayden, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, Phila., xii, 1863, 144.— 

 Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, 1869, 222 (Massachusetts); Proc. 



