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Cal/vert County: Governors Run, 1948 ( ?). Garrett County: Accident 

 1945 and 1951 ; Bittinger, 1948 ; Meadow Mountain, 1947. Montgomery 

 County : Great Falls, 1916; Plummers Island (Goldman and Jackson, 

 1939, p. 133). Prince Georges County: Bladensburg (near), 1949 (?). 

 College Park, 1948 ; 1/2 mile east of intersection of Highways 214 and 

 301, 1940. Washington County: Fort Frederick State Park, 1950. 



Remarhs. — Mansueti (1952, p. 35) lists on a provisional basis a 

 third subspecies of the fox squirrel in Maryland, the. more western 

 Sciurus n. rufiventer. He and Vagn Flyger in 1950 examined the tail 

 of a fox squirrel shot on a hill near Storey's Landing, Deep Creek 

 Lake, Garrett County, several years before, and found that its colora- 

 tion was similar to that of rufiventer. This subspecies normally occurs 

 west of the Allegheny Mountains and prefers open or parklike upland 

 woods rather than heavily forested sections. It commonly occurs along 

 fence rows in cultivated fields or in pastures where there are only scat- 

 tered trees. Mansueti claims that these conditions are found in many 

 parts of Garrett County, particularly around Deep Creek Lake and 

 that rufiventer may be moving into this area from further west. He 

 states that possibly as the heavily forested areas are cut, and S. n. 

 vulfinus vacates, 8. n. rufiventer invades the area vacated. On the 

 other hand, he notes that numbers of 8. n. rufiventer have been re- 

 leased in southwestern Pennsylvania in an effort to restock the area 

 and some of these may have migrated south into Maryland. The two 

 specimens from Garrett County that I have examined, however, are 

 typical 8. n. vulpinus and exhibit none of the characters of rufiventer. 



RED SQUIRREL 

 Tamiasciurus hudsonicus loquax (Bangs) 



Sciurus hudsonicus loguojx Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10: 

 161, 28 December 1896. 

 Tyi^e locality. — Liberty Hill, Conn. 



General distribution. — Southern Ontario, southern Vermont and New Hamp- 

 shire, south to northern Virginia and West Virginia, west to eastern Iowa and 

 southeastern Minnesota. 



Distribution in Maryland. — Occurs locally in the Piedmont, Ridge 

 and Valley, and Allegheny Mountain sections; scarce or absent over 

 most of the Western Shore section; apparently absent in the Eastern 

 Shore section. 



Distinguishing characteristics. — Teeth 1/1, 0/0, 2/1, 3/3, = 22; 

 anterior upper premolar frequently lacking, and when present so 

 reduced as to be easily overlooked; size small, the smallest of our 

 local tree squirrels; tail relatively short and bushy; general coloration 

 in winter bright rufous above, white below; ears tufted with black; 

 in summer, coloration more olive dorsally, with ears untufted. 



