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SCIURUS ANNULATUS. — Smith. 
Lewis’s Squirrel. 
SYNONYME. 
Sciurus Annulatus, Lewis’s Squirrel. — Griffiths, Cuvier, vol. iii., p. 190. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Has the upper part of the head, neck, shoulders, fore arms, to the arti- 
culation of the arm, back, flank, the posterior moiety of the thighs and a 
band round the belly, of ochrey-grey colour ; all the under parts, the 
inside of the limbs, and the paws are pure ochrey ; the ears are small, 
round, and far back ; the eyes are black, and surrounded with the same 
colour as the back ; the nostrils open at the extremity of the muzzle, form- 
ing a denuded black snout ; the upper lip is white and the whiskers very 
long. The tail is very beautiful, extremely thick and bushy, cylindrical, 
and annulated with seven black and six white bands, with the termination 
black. 
“ This appears to be the S. Annulatus described by Desmarest, Ency- 
clop. Method., article Mammalogie. His specific characters are: Pur of 
a bright greenish grey above, with lateral white bands, white underneath, 
tail longer than the body, round, annulated black and white.” (Le Conte.) 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
This animal was, as well as Sciurus Clarlcii, brought from the north-west 
by Lewis and Clark, on their return from their celebrated journey across 
our continent. 
The specimens were deposited in Peale’s Museum, in Philadelphia, and 
were, it is supposed, burnt up when the remains of that collection were 
destroyed by fire. 
Unless the peculiar annulated tail was the result of twisting that mem- 
ber when the animal was skinned, it is difficult to suppose this to have 
been a true squirrel. We do not know, however, any -spermophile that will 
agree with the description of it. 
