SciuRin^. MAMMALIA. Scittrid^. 13] 
tlie wnter the fur becomes somewhat lighter, or of a 
the maize crops, and large numbers are therefore annu- 
greyish tint. The female produces four or five young 
ally destroyed. The grey squirrel is about one-third 
at a birth, and rears them in a carefully constructed 
longer than our form. Its ears are not tufted, and the 
nest. This is formed of vegetable fibres, moss, leaves. 
fur is of an ashy-grey colour generally ; underneath the 
&c., and is usually lodged between the fork of two 
belly, and on the inside of the limbs it is white. The 
or more branches, so as to be concealed from view; 
tail is nearly as long as the body. 
in some instances the nest is made in the hollow of 
THE WHITE-STRIPED SQUIRREL {Sciurus getulus) 
a tree. 
is a native of the northern parts of Africa, and more 
THE HUDSON’S BAY SftUIKEEL {Sciurus Hudso- 
particidarly of Barbary. The fur exhibits a reddish- 
nius) is found in the white spruce forests of Canada, 
grey colour, the sides of the body being banded with 
and the northern parts of the United States. In the 
two white stripes. It is about the size of our British 
latter country it goes by the name of the Chiclcaree, on 
species, the tail being well developed, and, according 
account of the peculiar loud noise which it makes when 
to the description given by Pennant, regularly marked 
disturbed in its favourite haunts. It lives upon the 
wil.h shades of black, one beneath the other. It lives 
seeds and young buds of the spruce, and makes burrows 
chiefly among palm-trees. 
beneath the roots of this tree, where, during the sum- 
THE MALABAR SQUIRREL {Sciurus maximus) is 
mer, it lays in a large store of fir-cones as provision for 
an Indian species, measuring about thirty three inches. 
the 'wdnter ; hut it remains active throughout the cold 
including the tail, which is rather longer than the body. 
season. The flesh is said to be good eating. Tlie fur 
liike the above, it is mostly found among palm-trees, 
has a yellowish-browm hue, the central line of the back 
being particularly fond of the cocoa-nut, and the milk 
having a chestnut tinge ; but the colouring varies con- 
which it contains. The fur presents a rich chocolate- 
siderably at different periods of the year. 
broum colour, which subsides into a pale yellowish- 
THE BLACK SQUIRREL {Sciurm niger) is a large 
brown on the inner sides of the limbs and underneath 
species measuring upwards of two feet when the tail is 
the belly. The ears are short, and provided with long 
taken into account. It is also a North American form, 
brush-like tufts. 
being more particularly abundant on the northern shores 
SMITH’S SQUIRREL {Sciurus Cepapi) is a native of 
of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. According to Sir 
Southern Africa, and was originally discovered by Dr. 
John Richardson, it is like-wise tolerably plentiful in the 
Smith on the banks of the Limpopo river. The fur 
United States. The fur is short, coarse, and of a deep 
has an ochreous yellow tint, and is marbled with black- 
black colour ; the ears have an elliptical form, and are 
ish brown patches. The ears are sharp and blunt 
devoid of tufts. 
above, being also slightly notched near the tip. This 
THE GREY SQUIRREL {Sciurus cinereus) is an inhab- 
species is remarkably shy and agile. 
itant of the United States, being common in Pennsyl- 
SPARRMANN’S SQUIRREL {Sciurus hicolor) is also 
vania and Carolina. lake our English species, it lays 
found in Java, and is, in common with several other 
up a pro-vision of nuts and acorns against the season of 
species, termed by the natives the Jelerang. It is also 
scarcity. This species is particularly destructive to 
a native of India and Cochin China. This animal was 
Fig. 44. 
Sparrmann’s Squirrel, or Jelerang (Sciurus Tricolor). 
first described in the Transactions of the Gotheburg 
in some cases, uniformly black above and of a golden 
Society for the year 1778. The body is three feet 
hue beneath ; in other instances it is more or less ta-wmy 
long, including the tail, for which about nineteen inches 
throughout, with patches of a darker tint on the shoul- 
have to be reckoned (fig. 44). The ears are pointed. 
ders and hips. It is neither so abundant nor so prolific 
but not tufted. The fur varies much m colom’, being, 
as the above. 
