■895.1 543 [Bangs. 
THE LOUISIANA GliAY SQUIRREL, SCIURUS FULIGINOSUS 
BACHMAN. 
In his Hionographi of the genus Sciurus Dr. Bachman describes 
a squirrel from ISTew Orleans, Louisiana, under the name /Sciurus 
fuliginosus. All recent writers upon this genus have agreed in 
considering this as a synonym of S. caroUnensis, but a series of 
thirteen fine skins I have just received, collected at Gibson, 
Louisiana, by jMr. V. L. Small, leads me to regard S./uUgmosvn 
as a well-marked subspecies, which may stand as /Sciurus caro- 
llnensis fuUrjlnosus (Bachman), The Louisiana gray squirrel. 
Sciurus fu-Iif/inosifs Buclmiaii, Trans, zool. soc. Lond., Aug., 
KS38. 
And. and Bach., Quiulrupeds of N. America, vol. ;>, p. 240, pi. 
149, f. 2, 1845. 
Type locality, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
Dr. Bachman's description was evidently taken from a veiy 
dark individual, rather darker than any in my series. He gives 
the tail as only 6 inches 9 lines long, and shorter than the head 
and body. This is undoubtedly an error and ])r<d)ably arose 
from the tail of Dr. Bachman's specimens having been broken 
off, as is very frequently the case with all squirrels. I remember 
once shooting four or live northern gray squirrels in succession, 
all with the end of their tails gone. 
The chief differences between this subspecies and ^V. caroli- 
iiensis from Florida and (^eorgia are, that the Louisiana gray 
squirrel is a larger animjil, almost as big as the northern gray 
squirrel, iS. carolinensis i^ennsylvanicus (Ord), with large broad 
hind feet. The color of the iipper parts is darker and richer 
with much black in the upper surface of the tail. 
The under parts are never pure white, as are the under parts 
of A', carolinensis, and the line of demarcation between the 
colors of the under and upper parts is never distinct, and this is 
especially true of the under surface of the legs and arms. 
The under parts of /S. fuliginosus, as shown by my series, vary 
from a strong buffy ferruginous in No. 2840 to a dirty grayish 
white in No. 2833, the thirteen skins showing every stage 
between these two extremes. 
' Trans, zool. soc. Lond., Aug., 1838. 
