486 
$ Q^U I R R E L. 
213. Brasil¬ 
ian. 
2I4M2XICAN. 
Sciurus Brafilienfis ? Marcgrave Eriffon quad 107. 
Brafdy 230. Sciurus autuans. Sc. grifeus, fltb* 
Sciurus coloris ex fiavo ef fufco tus fiavefcens >Lin.JyJi. 88. 
mixti iseniis in lateribus. ft] bis. 
Sq. with plain ears, and rounded tail : head, body, 
and fides covered with foft dufky hairs, tipt with 
yellow: tail rounded: the hairs annulated with 
black and yellow : throat cinereous : infide of the 
legs, and the belly yellow : the belly divided length¬ 
ways with a white line •, which begins on the bread • 
is interrupted for a fmall fpace in the middle, and 
is then continued to the tail: length from nofe to 
tail, eight inches one quarter : tail ten. 
Inhabits Brafil and Guiana . Mr. Vandeck , cap¬ 
tain of a man of war in the Portuguefe fervice, who 
procured them from their fettlements in S, America , 
favored me with two. 
Tlalmototli Fernandez Nov. Hifp. pania Seb. Muf. I. tab. xlvii. Brifi 
■q. Jfon quad. 108. 
Sciurus rariffimus ex Nov. Hif- 
/ _ 
iSq. of a moufe color: the male mafkedon the back 
with feven white lines, which extend along the tail; 
the female, with only five : the tail of the male di¬ 
vided into four parts at the end; perhaps accidental¬ 
ly : its fcrotum pendulous, like a goat’s. 
Inhabits New Spain .. 
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