. Monographs of North American rodentia [microform]. Rodentia; Paleontology; Rongeurs; Paléontologie. lii';" Hill, ll'i?i ir l:ll;l! m''. 724 MONOGItAPIIS OP NORTH AMERICAN ROD"ENTIA. adopt niger ns the specific nnme of the group. The next most prominent name of the Southern Fox Scjuirrel, and next in (lute, is vulpinus of Gmelin, whicli Professor Baird adopted for this form in place of the later one, cajmiratus, (,f Bosc. The latter, however, has been often employed for its designation by both American an<I foreign authors, and is the name adopted by Bachman. The Nortliern Fox Sq
. Monographs of North American rodentia [microform]. Rodentia; Paleontology; Rongeurs; Paléontologie. lii';" Hill, ll'i?i ir l:ll;l! m''. 724 MONOGItAPIIS OP NORTH AMERICAN ROD"ENTIA. adopt niger ns the specific nnme of the group. The next most prominent name of the Southern Fox Scjuirrel, and next in (lute, is vulpinus of Gmelin, whicli Professor Baird adopted for this form in place of the later one, cajmiratus, (,f Bosc. The latter, however, has been often employed for its designation by both American an<I foreign authors, and is the name adopted by Bachman. The Nortliern Fox Squirrel has commonly borne the name cinereus, wliicb is unquestionably the name to be adopted for its varietal designation, although it has been also applied by various authors to S. carolinensis. Aside from vulpinus of Schreber {nee Gmelin), it has no very prominent synonyms. The Western Fox Squirrel was first described by Custis, in 1806, under the name ludoviciunvs. In consequence of the great variability in color this form presents, it was subsequently redescribed under eight or ten ditferent specific designations, several of which have been at times more or less current for particular phases of coloration, generally supposed to rep- resent forms specifically distinct from ladovicianus of Custis. The more prominent among them are rufiventer of Geoffroy, used by Desmarest and Harlan, the latter referring to it a specimen from New Orleans; macroura of Say, applied to examples from Eastern Kansas, which name, being preoccu- pied, was changed by Harlan to magnicaudatus, and adopted by Bachman and others in place of ludovicianus. Bachman applied the name subauratm to specimens received from Louisiana, and auduboni to black-bellied speci- mens from the same State. Audubon and Bachman gave the name sayi to specimens from the Missouri River, ruhicaudus to Illinois and Kentucky specimens, and occiden/alis to dusky specimens supposed to have come from the Pacific coast, but which the
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