RODENTIA-SCIURINAE-SCIURUS ABERTI. 
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posterior bases are grayish white in S. castanonotus. Great differences again are visible in the 
tail, which, in the latter, is nearly pure black and white ; the inferior hairs pure white, those 
on the upper surface and upper part of the sides are black with white tips, grayish at the base. 
In S. aberti all the hairs above are annulated several times with dark brown and grayish white, 
presenting no decided impression of either color except towards the end of the tail. The tail 
here is likewise much more bushy. 
S.fossor is without the dorsal stripe and the dark lateral line. The tail is much fuller and 
more bushy; the hairs beneath the tail are finely annulated ash gray and black without any of 
them being entirely white. The feet, also, are dark colored. 
The skull of this species is of very nearly the same size with that of S. carolinensis , from 
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Like this species it has the anterior small upper molar, making five ; 
but this is considerably larger in the New Mexican animal, and has a central tubercle on the 
crown, with a lateral valley on either side, as in the spermophiles. There are no other differ¬ 
ences of importance. 
The name of castanotus , as originally published, was a typographical error, not detected until 
too late, and conveys an erroneous impression in regard to the color of the ears. 
List of specimens . 
Catalog’e 
number. 
Correspond'g 
No. of skull. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Nature of 
specim’n. 
Collected by— 
121 
122 
1107 
1108 
9 
Copperttiines, N. M_ 
Winter, 1852 
Col. J. D. Graham . 
Skin_ 
J. H. Clark. 
SCIURUS ABERTI, Wood house. 
Tuft Eared Squirrel. 
Scinrus dorsalis, Woodhouse, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phil. VI, June, 1852, 110. (San Francisco Mountains, Cal.') 
Sdurus aberti, Woodhouse, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phil. VI, Dec. 1852, 220.—Ib. Sitgreaves’ Zufii Exped. 1853, 53; 
mammals, pi. vi. 
Aud. and Bach. N. Am. Quad. Ill, 1854, 262 ; pi. cliii. fig. 1. 
St. Ch. —Above finely grizzled bluish gray and black ; a broad dorsal stripe of pure chestnut from shoulders to tail; 
under parts and feet white ; a distinct dark line on each side the belly. Tail very full and bushy, as long as the body ; 
pure white beneath, above mixed black and white. Ears with long tufts springing from the superior border of the ear, as 
in Sdurus vulgaris. Head and body about 11 inches long. 
This is one of the handsomest of all the American squirrels, on account of its large size, full 
and long tail, and tufted ears. It has hitherto been found only in the San Francisco mountains 
of New Mexico, from which the specimen I have before me was brought by Dr. Woodhouse. 
Many hundred specimens of this species were observed in the same range by Dr. Kennerly, all 
of them conspicuous for their tufted ears. 
This squirrel is about the size of the western fox squirrel, although it exceeds it in the com¬ 
parative length and fullness of the tail. The ears are high and narrow, and remarkable for the 
flattened tuft of hairs which crown the superior half of the ear, springing from the extreme 
margin, or on the upper part of the convexity : the posterior margin of the ear is also tufted to 
