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210. Black. Qu s.liteclialotl-thlitic .Hernandez Black fqliirrel Caltjhy Car. II, 7^. 
Mex. 582. Fernandez. No<v. Hifp . L’Ecureuil noir. BriJJon quad „ 105. 
8. Sciurus niger 'Lin.Jyf. 86. 
Sq. with plain ears: fometimes wholly black, but 
often marked with white on the nofe. the neck, or 
end of the tail: the tail {hotter than that of the 
former : the body equal. 
Inhabits the N. of Afia * 9 N. America , and Mexico . 
I ftiould have placed it as a variety of the laft fpe~ 
ties, did not Mr. Catejby exprefsly fay, that it breeds 
and alfociates in feparate troops 5 is equally nume¬ 
rous with the former; commits as great ravages 
among the Mayz ; makes its neft in the fame man¬ 
ner, and forms like them, magazines for winter 
food. 
0 . Sq. with plain ears : coarfe fur mixed with dirty 
white, and black: throat and infide of the legs 
and thighs black : tail much Ihorter than thofe 
of fquirrels ufually are : ol a dull yellow color: 
mixed with black : body of the fize of the grey 
fquirrel, 
Inhabits Virginia 5 deferibed from Mr. Kmphan 9 s 
collection, who told me that the planters called it 
the Cat fquirrel. 
* The fmeft are taken near the lake Baikal, and a coat Barguzhifln 
tftrog, upon the upper Angara , in the diUriel of Uerifchtnjk , which 
are the bell in all Siberia 1 thefe continue black the whole year; the 
©tilers grow iu.fty in bummer. Muller s Rufs . Samhaig. III. 518. 519. 
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