sciurus 907 



Specimens examined. — Eight, from the following localities : — 

 Norway : Hammerfest, Finmarken, 2 ; Alten, Finmarken, 1. 

 Sweden : Enontekis, Norrbotten, 1. 

 Finland : Muonionniaka, 3 ; Kirkkonummi, 1. 



2. Hammerfest, Finmarken, G. Barrett-Hamilton 11. 1. 2. 152-153. 



Norway. (J.L.Bonhote.) (p). 

 9. Alten, Finmarken. Ghristiania Museum 93. 3. 1. 9. 



i. Enontekis, Norrbotten, D. Meinertzhagen 97. 10. 21. 5. 



Sweden. (o & p). 



4. Muonionniska, Finland. D. Meinertzhagen 97. 10. 21. 1-4. 



(c & p). 

 6. Kirkkonummi, Finland. Lord Lilford (p). 98. 11. 4. 2. 



(P. Merilainen.) 



Sciurus vulgaris ledcoueus Kerr. 



1792. Sc[iurus] vulg[aris] leucourus Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 256. 



1857. Sciurus vulgaris Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 272 (part). 



189G. Sciurus vulgaris leucurus Thomas, The Zoologist, 3d ser., xx, 



p. 402, November, 1896. 

 1899. Sciurus leucurus Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, p. 3. 

 1906. Sciurus vulgaris leucurus Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 



xn, p. 362. 

 1910. Sciurus vulgaris leucurus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, 



p. 118. 



Type locality. — England. 



Geographical distribution. — Great Britain and Ireland. 



Diagnosis. — Dark phase absent ; tail drab, fading in summer 

 to cream-buff, never tinged with red ; summer pelage : general 

 colour above light hazel or dull rufous, clearest and brightest on 

 sides and legs ; winter pelage : general colour above a dull 

 broccoli-brown. Size small, the condylobasal length of skull 

 rarely if ever exceeding 48 mm. 



Colour. — Summer pelage : upper parts a reddish brown varying 

 from a light hazel to a dull rufous, darker and less reddish along 

 median area from face to rump, brighter on sides, on outer 

 surface of limbs, and on feet ; underparts dull white, usually 

 marked off from brown of sides by a narrow line of tawny- 

 ochraceous, this spreading to suffuse inner surface of limbs ; tail 

 a rather dark drab bleaching irregularly to cream-buff ; a similar 

 bleaching takes place in the remnants of the ear-tufts which 

 occasionally persist. Winter pelage : upperparts an incon- 

 spicuously grizzled greyish brown approaching the broccoli- 

 brown of Ridgway ; the middle of back faintly darker, the 

 shoulders and sides of neck usually tinged with russet ; outer 

 surface of limbs and narrow line along sides russet or hazel, 

 rarely with the decided reddish tinge seen in summer ; under- 

 parts dull white ; tail and ear-tufts drab, occasionally with a 

 dusky cast. 



Measurements. — Adult male and female from Dunphail, Elgin, 

 Scotland: head and body, 218 and 213; tail, 179 and 165; 



