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SCIURUS C OLLIJ^I.— Rich. 
Collie’s Squirrel 
PLATE CIV.— Males. 
S. Supra e fresco-nigro fiavoque varius subtus ex flavescente albidus ; 
magnitudine S. migratorii. 
CHAKAOTEES. 
Size of Sciurus Migratorius ; upper parts mottled brownish black and 
yellow ; under surface cream white. 
3YN0NYMES. 
Sciurus Collia:i. Richardson, Append, to Beechey’s Voyage. 
“ “ Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838 (Monog. of Genus Sciurus). 
DESCRIPTION. 
In size and form this species bears some resemblance to the migratory 
gray Squirrel of the middle or northern States ; the tail, however, in the 
only specimen which exists in any collection, appears much smaller and 
less distichous, and the animal, when other specimens are examined, may 
prove to be intermediate in size between the Carolina gray Squirrel and 
S. Migratorius. 
The fur is rather coarse, and the tail appears to be somewhat cylindrical ; 
ears, of moderate size, ovate, clothed with short hairs on both surfaces, but 
not tufted. 
COLOUR. 
Above, grizzled with black and dull-yellow ; sides of the muzzle, under 
parts of the body, and inner sides of limbs, dull-white ; tail, moderate, the 
hairs grayish- white, three times annulated with black. Hairs of the body, 
both above and beneath, grey at the roots, those on the back having 
lengthened black tips broadly annulated with dull-yellow. The hairs of 
the head resemble those of the back, except on the front, where they are 
annulated with dull-white ; top of the muzzle, brown ; cheeks, greyish ; 
