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Hall and Kelson (1959, p. 371). However, a careful comparison of 

 specimens from Calvert and Charles Counties in the Western Shore 

 Section and Cambridge in the Eastern Shore section with specimens 

 of typical pennsylvanicus from central Pennsylvania and New York 

 show that they differ in no essential respect from that subspecies, 

 whereas they are considerably larger and paler than typical carolinen- 

 sis. I have also examined the specimen from Eastville, Va., assigned 

 by Patton (1939) to carolinemis^ and consider it to be referable to 

 pennsylvanicus. It is somewhat darker than typical pennsylvanicus^ 

 but can be matched in coloration by many specimens in similar prelage 

 from the northern portion of the range of pennsylvanicus. In size 

 it is indistinguishable from typical pennsylvanicus and considerably 

 larger than carolinensis. Consequently, all of Maryland falls within 

 the range of S. c. pennsylvanicus^ and this range extends at least as 

 far south as Eastville on the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Penin- 

 sula and probably as far as the tip of that peninsula. 



FOX SQUIRREL 

 Sciurus niger Linnaeus 



[JSciwms'] niger Linnaeus, Syst. nat. ed. 10, 1:64, 1758. 



This is our largest tree squirrel and one of the most spectacular 

 rodents in Maryland. It resembles the gray squirrel but is considerably 

 bigger and heavier, and less often observed. Mansueti (1952, p. 31) 

 comments that a ratio of 40 grays to one fox squirrel may be high, but 

 that few fox squirrels have been reported in recent years and the 

 species appears to be becoming scarce in all the Atlantic Coast States. 



The distribution of fox squirrels in Maryland has been reviewed 

 by Mansueti (1952, pp. 31-41), and most of the following is based 

 upon his records or records cited by him. 



Two subspecies occur within Maryland. They are : 



Sciurus niger cinereus Linnaeus 



[Sciurus'] cinereus Linnaeus, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1 : 64, 1758. 



Sciurus niger hryanti H. H. Bailey, Bailey Mus. Libr. Nat. Hist., 



Newport News, Virginia, Bull. No. 1 [p. 1], 1 August 1920. (Type 



locality : Dorcester County, Md.) 



Type locality. — Restricted to Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, by 

 Barkalow (1956, p. 13). 



General distribution. — Formerly from Northampton County in Virginia to 

 southeastern Pennsylvania, but now confined to the Eastern Shore section of 

 Maryland. It has been listed by the Department of the Interior as an endangered 

 form. 



Distribution in Maryland. — Occurs in limited numbers in Dor- 

 chester, Queen Annes, Talbot, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester 



