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MEXICAN MARMOT SQUIRREL. 
that it exists along the Rio Grande and in other parts of Texas, where he 
has seen it as a pet in the Mexican ranchos. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
In our first edition (folio plates), we gave figures of the young of this 
species as S. spttosoma of Bennett, but having since ascertained that his 
specimen was only the young of S. Mexicanus, a species which had been 
previously published, we have now set down S. spilosoma as a synonyme of 
the latter, and have placed the figures of both old and young on the same 
plate. 
