Fes., 1912. MamMats oF ILimnois anD WIsconsIN— Cory. 115 
Subgenus NEOSCIURUS Trouessart. 
2=2 
Premolars normally [a nasals narrowed posteriorly and not 
extending to posterior end of premaxillaries; zygomata ascending 
obliquely; molar series relatively large. 
Sciurus carolinensis GmMeELtIn. 
SOUTHERN GRAY SQUIRREL. 
[Sciurus] carolinensis GMEL., Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. 148. 
Sciurus carolinensis KENNICOTT, Agr. Rept. for 1856, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 
1857, p. 66 (Illinois). ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), 
p. 188 (Iowa). GARMAN, Bull. Essex Inst., XXVI, 1894, p. 6 (Kentucky). 
Jackson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 71 (Missouri). Hann, Ann. 
Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 361 (Indiana). 
HowELL, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, p. 58 (Tennessee, Mississippi, etc.). 
Sciurus carolinensis fuliginosus Ruoaps, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), 
p. 196 (Tennessee). 
Type locality — Carolina. 
Distribution — Southern half of eastern United States from the edge 
of the plains, ranging from northern Florida and northern Louisiana 
north to southern Illinois, southern Indiana and Virginia. Replaced 
in the North and South by other races. 
Description — General appearance grayish, tinged with pale rusty 
brown on middle of back, on sides behind the fore legs, on ears and 
about the face and head; under parts white or whitish; soles of feet 
usually naked; hairs of tail pale tawny brown at base, banded with 
black and broadly tipped with white. Animals of this species 
usually have two premolars on each side of upper jaw. 
Measurements — Total length, about 18.25 in. (462 mm.); tail verte- 
bre, 8.50 in. (215 mm.); hind foot, 2.50 in. (64 mm.). 
The Southern Gray Squirrel occurs within our limits in the southern 
portion of Illinois. The Field Museum collection contains specimens 
from Olive Branch, Alexander County, but it probably occurs at least 
as far north as the south central part of the state. As would be ex- 
pected, specimens from northern Illinois are often more or less inter- 
mediate between this form and S. c. leucotis, but approach nearer the 
latter. Its habits are apparently the same as those given for the 
Northern Gray Squirrel, except that it is less migratory, as would be 
expected under milder climatic conditions and a consequent less variable 
food supply. 
Specimens examined from Illinois: 
Illinois — Olive Branch, Alexander Co., 1; Hancock Co., 1=2. 
