Bepiinted from SoxresiL or Mauualoqt, 

 Vol. 2, No. 2, May. 1921 



THE BED SQUIRREL OF THE SITKAN DISTRICT, ALASKA ^ 



By H. S. Swakth 



The red squirrel of southeastern Alaska was placed with Sdurus 

 hvdsonicus vancouverensis by J. A. Allen in his "Revision of the Chick- 

 arees," where vancouverensis was first described (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 10, 1898, p. 269). The present writer, in a report upon a 

 collection of birds and mammals from Vancouver Island, comments 

 upon certain features that distinguish the red squirrel of southeastern 

 Alaska from typical vancouverensis of Vancouver Island (Swarth, 

 Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., vol. 10, 1912, p. 88), without formally naming 

 the Alaskan race. Further study of the red squirrels of the northwest 

 coast region has emphasized the desirabihty of giving a name to this 

 Alaskan form. It may be diagnosed as follows: 



Sciurus hudsonicus picatus new subspecies 



KUPEEANOF RED SQUIRREL 



Type. — Male adult, skin and skull; no. 8767, Mus. Vert. Zool.; Kupreanof 

 Island, 26 miles south of Kake Village, at southern end of Keku Straits, south- 

 eastern Alaska; April 23, 1909; collected by H. S. Swarth; original no. 7281. 



' Contribution from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of 

 California. 



