248 BtTLLETiiSr 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Genus SCIURUS Linnaeus (17S8). 

 Sciurus LiNN^us, Syst Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 64. 



Tail long and bushy ; ears well developed, sometimes tufted. Feet 

 adapted for climbing, the anterior having 4 digits and a rudimentary 

 poUex and the posterior 5 digits, all of which have long, curved, 

 and sharp claws. Skull lightly built, with long postorbital processes : 

 jjenultimate upper premolar, when present, minute. Mammae, in the 

 species on the Mexican border, 4 pairs. Diurnal and arboreal. 



KEY TO SCIUBOS FODND ON THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINE, BASED ON EXTERNAL CHARACTERS. 



a. Total length about 400 mm. 

 6. Pelage mostly rufescent above, 

 c. Median area of upper and under side of tail narrow and obscure, with 

 the color of this part reddish above and gray below. 



Sciurus fremonti mogollonensis (p. 256). 

 cc. Median area of upper and under side of tail broad and distinct, yellow- 

 ish ochraceous above and grayish white below ; general color of body 

 slightly yellower and less rufescent above. 



Sciurus fremonti graJiamensis ("p. 261). 



66. Pelage mostly grayish above Sciurus mearnsi (p. 262). 



aa. Total length more than 400 mm. 



d. Ears conspicuously tufted ; sides with a line of blaelc separating the- 

 colors of the upper and lower surfaces ; under surface of tail white. 



Sciurus aherti (p. 250). 

 dd. Ears not tufted ; sides without a black line ; under side of tail white. 

 e. Under surface of body ochraceous. 

 /'. Upper surface with a black vertebral band ; length, 554 mm. ; tail, 



279; hind foot, 77 Sciurus apache (p. 270). 



ff. Upper surface without a vertebral band ; length, 475 mm. ; tail, 



225; hind foot, 66 Sciurus rufiventer teooiahus (p. 281). 



ee. Under surface of body white. 

 g. Hair of tail fulvous at base. 



li. Back and ears uniform gray ; total length less than 500 mm. 



Sciurus alleni (p. 269). 

 hh. Baclv and ears rusty yellowish ; length more than 500 mm. 

 i. Rusty band continuous from occiput to root of tail. 



Sciurus arizonensis (p. 273). 

 a. Rusty dorsal band interrupted anteriorly. 



Sciurus arizonensis liuacJiuca (p. 277). 



gg. Hair of tail gray at base; total length, 575; tail, 290; hind 



foot, 80 Sciurus griseus anthonyi (p. 264). 



KEY TO SCIUEDS FOnND »N THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINE, EASED CHIEFLY ON CRANIAL AND 



DENTAL CHARACTERS. 



a. Species having two upper premolars. 

 6. Total length of skull less than 60 mm. 

 c. Pelage mostly rufescent above. 



d. Median area of upper and under side of tail narrow and obscure, 

 with the color reddish above and gray below. 



Sciurus fremonti mogollonensis (p. 256). 



