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season of frost and snow. It makes large hoards of nuts, acorns, and seeds; and, in 
consequence of this good cheer, this Squirrel is seen actively scampering about in cold 
weather, when his hungry cousins cannot pluck up courage to leave their warm abodes 
even in search of food. This Squirrel runs with great swiftness, and, though it cannot 
leap as far as the migratory species, it darts along the trunk of a tree much more rap- 
idly. Its note is a merry, shrill chir-r-r-r-r, very unlike the migratory and Fox Squirrels. 
Like the Red Fox and some other animals, the Chickaree appears in some instances to 
follow the settlements of the white man. Dr. Kirtland speaks of its having made its 
appearance, about the beginning of the present century, on the Western Reserve, where 
it is now, 1856, exceedingly abundant. It may be that this appearance of the Red 
Squirrel is the result of the destruction of certain enemies.” . 
It is stated, in the Geological Survey of Ohio for 1838, that this species 
“destroys the Black and Gray species, and also the young of birds. I 
have myself seen it committing its depredations on a brood of young 
Robins.” | 
, ScIURUS CAROLINENSIS Gmelin. 
Var. leucotis Allen. 
NORTHERN GRAY SQUIRREL. 
1792. Sciwrus cinereus, Schreber, Siugt., iv, 1792, 766, pl. ccxii (nec S. 
cinereus, Linn., 1758).—Harlan, Faun. Amer., 1825, 173.—H. 
Smith, Griffith’s Cuvier, v, 1827, 254.—Fischer, Synop. Mam., 
1829, 352.—Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, 45.—Maximilian, 
Weigm. Arch. f. Naturg., 1861, 66. 
1815. Sciurus pennsylvanicus, Ord, “Guthrie’s Geog. (2d Am. ed.) ii, 1815, 
292” (dusky phase). 
1826. Sciurus niger, Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., 11, 1826, 133 (melanistic 
phage) (nec S. niger, Linn., 1858).—Richardson, Faun. Bor. 
Amer., i, 1829, 191.—Gapper, Zool. Journ., v, 1830, 206.— 
Bach., Prec. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838, 96; Charlesworth’s Mag 
Nat. Hist., iii, 1839, 3835; Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts., xxxvil, 
1839, 307.—Hmmons, Quad. Mass., 1840, 67.—DKay, N.Y. Zool., 
i, 1842, 60, pl. xvii, fig. 1—Thompson, Hist. Vermont, 1842, 
45.—Wagner, Suppl. Schreber’s Saugt., 111, 1843, 172.—Schinz, 
Synop. Mam., 1), 1845, 9.—Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. A., i, 1849, 
261, pl. xxxiv.—Maximilian, Weigm. Arch. f. Naturgesch, 1861, 
76.—Hall, Canad. Nat. and Geol., 1861, 301. 
1826. Sciurus carolinensis, Godman, Amer. Nat. Hist., 11, 1826, 131.— 
Doughty’s Cab. Nat. Hist., ii, 1832, 240, pl. xxi—Baird, Mam. 
N. Amer., 1857, 256, pl. xlv, fig. 2 (skull) Gn part; “larger 
northern, and black and dusky” varieties only).—Thomas, Tr. 
Ill. Agr. Soc., iv, 1860, 656.—Hall, Canad. Nat. and Geol., 1861, 
301.—Hayden, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., Phila., xii, 1863, 144.— 
Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., i, 1869, 222 (Massachusetts); Proc. 
