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SCIUR US FREMONTI.— Townsend. 
Fremont’s Squirrel. 
PLATE CXLI X. — Fig. 1 . — Natural Size. 
Magnitudine Sciuri Hudsonii ; caudti corpore breviore ; auribus cris- 
tatis ; colore supra albido, infra cinereo. 
CHARACTERS. 
Size of Sciurus Hudsonius ; tail , shorter than the body ; ears, tufted. 
Colour, light gray above, ashy white beneath. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Upper incisors, larger than those of S. Richardsonii or S. lanuginosus ; 
lower incisors, longer and more curved than those of S. Hudsonius. The 
first or deciduous tooth wanting. 
Body, short and stout, presenting less appearance of lightness and agility 
than that of the Hudson’s Bay Squirrel ; head, short and broad ; forehead, 
but slightly arched ; ears, rather short, broad, rounded, and much tufted ; 
whiskers, long, reaching to the shoulders ; legs, short and stout ; the third 
toe on the fore-foot, slightly the longest ; nails, compressed, and shorter, 
blunter, and less hooked than those of S. Hudsonius. Tail, a little shorter 
than the body, of tolerable breadth, and capable of a distichous arrange- 
ment. 
The whole body is clothed with a dense coat of rather long and soft fur. 
COLOUR. 
Fur on the back, dark plumbeous from the roots ; on the sides, tipped 
with light gray. There is a narrow dark reddish line along the centre of 
the back, caused by the hairs on the dorsal line being tipped with reddish- 
brown and black. On the under surface the fur is plumbeous at the roots, 
and tipped with ashy white. The tufts on the ears are black ; whiskers, 
black ; a line of dark brown runs from the end of the nose, blending gra- 
dually with the lighter tint of the forehead ; there is a light circle around 
the eye ; sides of the nose, and lips, yellowish-white ; upper surface of feet, 
gray. 
