122 Fretp Museum or Natura. History — Zodiocy, Vo. XI. 
abundant nuts and acorns of the forests. So far had they departed 
from their accustomed habits that they were seen on the prairie, four 
or five miles from any timber; but even there, as usual, they disliked to 
travel on the ground, and ran along the fences wherever it was possible.” 
(I. ¢., pp. 64-65.) 
Jackson states that in the autumn of 1905 there was a migration 
of these Squirrels across the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to 
Minnesota and that later a large number migrated back into Wisconsin. 
(1. ¢., p. 87.) 
Specimens examined from Ilinois and Wisconsin: 
Illinois — Lake Forest, Lake Co., 4. 
Wisconsin — Camp Douglas, Juneau Co., 1; loc. ?, (albino) 1; (M. P. 
M). Milton, (black) 1; Delavan, 1; Prescott, Pierce Co., 14; 
Oconomowoc, 3; Honey Creek, Racine Co., 1; Maiden Rock, 18; 
Pardeeville, 9; Racine Co., 16; Fall River, Columbia Co., 6; East 
Troy, 6; Fountain City, Buffalo Co., 8; Waukesha Co., 2; Lancas- 
ter, 2. Eagle, (albino) 1; West Bend, (albino) 1; Rochester, 2; 
Auburndale, (nearly black) 1; (O. C.) Palmyra, Jefferson Co., 5= 99. 
Subgenus TAMIASCIURUS Trouessart. 
Premolars aa or = skull short, broad, and curved, highest 
between postorbital processes of the frontal; nasals broad; squamosal 
process of zygoma projecting outward and with gradual downward 
curve; molar series moderately large. 
Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bancs. 
SOUTHERN RED SQurRREL. RED SQUIRREL. CHICKAREE. 
Sciurus hudsonicus loquax Bancs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., X, 1896, p. 161. SNYDER, 
Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., II, 1902, p. 120 (Wisconsin). ApaMs, Rept. State 
Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), p. 128 (Michigan). Jacxson, Bull. Wis. 
Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 16 (Wisconsin). Hann, Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & 
Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 468 (Indiana). VAN Hyninc & PELLETT, 
Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., XVII, 1910, p. 214 (Iowa). 
Sciurus hudsonius KENnicort, Agr. Rept. for 1856, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1857, 
p. 67 (Illinois). ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 188 
(Iowa). 
Sciurus hudsonicus EVERMANN & But er, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1893 (1894), p. 130 
(Indiana). Etxtiot, Field Columb. Mus. Pub., Zodl., I, 1898, p. 219 (Iowa). 
Sciurus Hudsonicus LapuaM, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc., II, 1852 (1853), p. 339 
(Wisconsin). KENNicoTT, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), p- 579 
(Cook Co., Illinois), 
