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SCIURUS FULIGINOSUS . — B ach, 
Sooty Squirrel. 
PLATE CXLIX. Fig. 2.— Natural Size. 
Sciuro Hudsonio paullo major ; cauda nonnihil plana, et corpore multo 
breviore ; colore plerumque supra nigro, subfusco-flavo yariegato ; infra 
subfusco. 
CHARACTERS. 
A little larger than the Hudson’s Bay Squirrel (S. Hudsonius) ; tail, jlattish, 
and much shorter than the body ; general colour , black above, grizzled with 
brownish-yellow ; beneath, brownish. 
SYN0NYME. 
Sciurus Fuliginosus. Bach., Monograph of the genus Sciurus, Trans. Zool. Soc., 
London, August, 1838. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Head, short, and broad ; nose, very obtuse ; ears, short, and rounded, 
slightly clothed with hair ; feet and claws, rather short and strong ; tail, 
short, and flattened, but not broad, resembling that of Sciurus Hudsonius ; 
the form of the body is like that of the Carolina gray Squirrel. 
COLOUR. 
The limbs externally, and feet, are black, obscurely grizzled with brown- 
ish-yellow ; on the under parts, with the exception of the chin and throat, 
which are grayish, the hairs are annulated with brownish-orange and black ; 
at the roots, they are grayish-white ; the prevailing colour of the tail is 
black above, the hairs being brown at the base, some of them obscurely 
annulated with brown, and at the apex pale brown ; on the under side of 
the tail, the hairs exhibit pale yellowish-brown annulations. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines 
Length of head and body, 10 
“ tail (vertebrae), 6 9 
