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MAMMALOGY. 



hreviter pilosis, naso nigro, cauda disticlia, cdho-marginata, corpore 

 non hreviore. 



Form. — Large and rather heavy, somewhat resembling S. cinereus. 

 Hairs rather long and coarse ; whiskers shorter than the head ; 

 ears large (not fringed), subtriangular, rounded at the tip, covered 

 on both sides with short hair. Tail long ; legs strong and robust. 



Dimensions. — Total length (of skin) from tip of nose to end of tail, 

 including the hair on the latter, about twenty -six inches; head, three 

 and a quarter inches; tail including hair, fourteen inches; length 

 of ear, one inch ; fore foot, two inches ; hind foot, three inches ; hair 

 at end of tail, two and three-quarter inches. Incisors, two in each 

 jaw; molars, five in the upper and four in the under jaw on each 

 side. 



Colors. — Body above light gray ; hairs gray at base, then black, 

 with bands of white near the middle, becoming duller and gray 

 towards the point, and some hairs pure black. A small spot towards 

 the top of the nose and an obscure line over the eye, black ; whiskers 

 black ; ears gray ; incisors on their exterior surface, dark orange, 

 beneath Avhite. Hair of the tail black, with gray at base and tipped 

 with white, rather lighter on its under surface. 



Hab. — Oregon and California. Specimen in Mus. Acad. Philadel- 

 phia, and Nat. Mus. Washington. 



This fine species has now been brought by several naturalists from 

 California, the first of which was Dr. A. L. Heermann, whose speci- 

 men was described by our esteemed friend, Dr. John L. Leconte, one 

 of the most accomplished and eminent of American naturalists, as 

 above cited. There was at that time no copy of Mr. Peale's volume 

 in the city of Philadelphia, and from the fact that a part only of the 

 Government edition of one hundred copies was distributed and no 

 other published, its contents were necessarily but little known. Dr. 

 Leconte was, however, the first to inform us that his, and the species 

 described by Mr. Peale, were identical. 



Mr. Peale observes with reference to this animal : 



" In the southern parts of Oregon, there is a large species of pine 



