Bangs.] 544 f^^^y '5- 
No. 2840 is a very beautiful squirrel and probably nearei- 
Bachman's type in color than any I have. The whole upper 
parts are deep yellowish ferruginous varied with black, and the 
under parts, except the chin and throat, which are dark yellowish 
gi"ay, are bright buffy ferruginous. The tail is very dark and 
fringed on the outer edges with white-tipped hairs. 
In all the skins in my series the upper surface of the feet and 
hands is much darker than in S. carolinensis. They all have 
very conspicuous woolly tufts at the back of the ears ; in the 
examples with ferruginous under parts these ear-tufts are pale 
ferruginous, in the one with gray under parts they are graj^nsh 
white. The ear-tufts often project a little distance above the 
top of the ear. I have never seen a specimen of S. carolinensis 
from Georgia or Florida in which the ear-tufts were at all con- 
spicuous, and generally, even when the animals are in their fullest 
coat, the ears are almost naked. 
Gmelin gave the name Sciiirus carolinensis to the gray 
squirrel of the Carolina coast, which is really intermediate 
between the northern and the Floridan forms, and we are there- 
fore met with the awkward question, shall we recognize three 
races, one of which is intermediate, or shall we use Gmelin's 
name for the southern extreme ? I have adopted the latter course, 
and thus call the Florida gray squirrel, Sciunts carolinensis 
Gmelin. 
The accompanying lists of measurements give a very good 
idea of the difference in size between the Louisiana, the south - 
ei-n, and the northern gray squirrels. They have been carefully 
taken from fully adult and accurately measured specimens. 
All the measurements were taken in the flesh by reliable collec- 
tors. 
