sciurus 909 



(5,2?. Thornhaugh, Northarnp- Bev. H. H. Slater 11.1.3.429-431. 



tonshire. (o & p). 



2<5. Bury St. Edmunds, Suf- Dr.A.Giinther (c&p). 83.2.3.1-2. 

 folk. 



6. Horsham, Surrey. E. B. Alston (r). 79. 9. 25. 29. 



(J. E. Harting.) 



55. Blandford, Dorset. J. C. Hansel Pleydell 97. 1. 6. 1-55. 



(c & p). 



Sciurus vulgaris russus Miller. 



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

 1899. Sciurus vulgaris rufus Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 

 p. 5 (part). Not of Kerr, 1792. 



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



xn, p. 360 (part). Not of Kerr, 1792. 



1907. Sciurus vulgaris russus Hiller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., 



xx, p. 427, November, 1907. Type in British Museum. 

 1910. Sciurus vulgaris russus Trouessart, Paune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 119. 



Type locality. — Dinan, Cotes-du-Nord, France. 



Geographical distribution. — West-central continental Europe 

 from Brittany to Holland, east to central France and perhaps 

 further ; details of distribution not known. 



Diagnosis. — Dark phase present but less common than red 

 phase. Summer pelage : red phase : essentially as in S. vulgaris 

 vulgaris, but red of back more strongly tinged with chestnut ; 

 dark phase : body very dark, almost blackish mummy-brown, 

 the sides and shoulders washed with hazel ; tail blackish. 

 Winter pelage : light phase : body hazel,, the sides a little 

 suffused with light smoke-grey, tail rufous, much darker than 

 that of Ridgway ; dark phase not seen. 



Measurements. — Type (adult male) : head and body, 202 ; 

 tail, 166; hind foot, 54-; ear, 30. A second adult male from 

 the type locality : head and body, 208 ; tail, 173 ; hind foot, 

 54 • ear, 28. Adult male and female from Oosterbeek, Guelder- 

 land, Holland: head and body, 217 and 227; tail, 175 and 

 172; hind foot, 57 -5 and 57 -5; ear, 31 and 32. For cranial 

 measurements see Table, p. 919. 



Specimens examined.— -Twenty-six, from the following localities :— 

 Holland : s'Graveland, 8 ; Oosterbeek, Guelderland, 2. 

 Pbance l Seine-Inferieure, 5 ; Dinan, C6tes-du-Nord, 4 ; Meurfche-et- 

 Moselle, 7 (perhaps referable to S. v. infuscatus). 



o S 4 9 s'Graveland, Hilversen, P. E. Blaauw (c & p). 98. 5. 17. 1-2. 

 ' ' Holland. 98.6.11.1-2. 



98. 11. 13. 1-2. 

 6, 9. Oosterbeek, Guelder- 0. Thomas (c &-p). 98. 2. 1. 13-14. 

 land. 

 <?. Duelair, Seine -Inferi- G. Barrett-Hamilton 11.1.2.157. 

 eure, Prance. (p). 



4 i. Dinan, Brittany. W. J. Bramley (c&p). 97. 11. 6. 1-4. 



(97. 11. 6. 2. Type of subspecies.) 



5 9. Manonville, Meurthe- Lord Lilford (p). 11. 1. 1. 97-101. 



et-Moselle. (Lomont.) 



