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Subfamily Sciurinae. 
Genus SCIURUS Linnaeus. 
1758. Sciurus Linnaeus, Syst. nat., x ecL, i, p. 63. Type.— 
jSciurus vulgaris Linnaeus. 
Subgenus Echinosciueus Trouessart.^ 
1880. Echinosciurus Teouessart, Le naturaliste, ii, no. 37, 
p. 292. October, 1880. Type. — Sciurus liypopyrrlms Waglee. 
* Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier. 
1829. ^Scim'us^ by implication] aureogaster Y. Cuvier, Hist, 
nat. mammiferes, vi, livr. lix, pi. with text. September, 
1829. (Binomial published at end of work only, vol. vii, 
table gen4rale et m4thodique, p. 4, 1842.) 
1885. Sciurus aureogaster True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Part.) 
Type locality.— “California”—really eastern Mexico (see 
Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, p. 38, May 9,1899). 
According to Canon xxxviii of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union code, the name aureogaster is not tenable as published in 
1829. 
* Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus (Wagler). 
1831. Sciurus hypopyrrhus Wagler, Oken’s Isis, pp. 510- 
511. 
1885. Sciurus hyp)opyrrhus True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 595. 1885. (Part.) 
1899. Sciurus aureogaster hypopyrrhus Nelson, Proc. 
Washington acad. sci., i, p. 42. May 9, 1899. 
Type locality. — Mexico, probably in Vera Cruz. 
1 Revised by Nelson, Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, pp. 38-83. May 9, 1899. 
