SCIUEUS CAPI8TKATUS.— Boso. 
Fox SaUIRKEL. 
PLATE LXVIII 
S. magnus, eolorem variens ; naso auriculisque albis ; pilis crassis ; 
cauda corpore longiore. 
CHARACTERS. 
Size, large ; tail, longer than the body ; hair, coarse ; ears and nose, 
white ; subject to great variety in colour. 
SYNONYMES. 
SoiuBus Capistratcs; Boso, Ann. du Mus., vol. i., p. 281. 
“ VcLPiNcs? Linn. Ed. Gmel., 
“ Niger; Catesby. 
Black Squirrel; Bartram’s Travels in North America. 
ScicRcs Capistratus; Desm. Mammalogie, p. 332. 
“ Variegatus ; Desm. Mammalogie, p. 333. 
“ Capistratus; Cuv., Eegne Animal, vol. i., p. 139. 
Fox Squirrel, Lawson’s Carolina, p. 124. 
SciuRus Capistratus ; Harlan. 
SciuRus VuLPiNus ; Godman. 
DESCRIPTION. 
This is the largest and most interesting species of the genus, found in 
the United States. Although it is subject to great varieties of colour, 
occasioning no little confusion by the creation of several nominal 
species, yet it possesses several striking and uniform markings by which 
it may, through all its varieties, be distinguished at a glance from any 
other. 
The Fox Squirrel is furnished with the following teeth, viz 
2 „ . 00 ,, , 4—4 
Incisive - ; Canine — ; Molar ■ — = 30. 
2 00 4—4 
But although we have thus given to this species but four grinders in the 
Upper jaw, which peculiarity applies to nearly all the specimens that may 
