. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. car-, feet, inner surface of limbs, and all of under surface of body orange-buff. Tail grizzled above, in the median area, with broad, lateral, subterminal bands of black and broad yellowish white tips to the hairs; under side of tail tricolored, orange-buff mesially, this bor- dered successively by black and yellowish white. The naked under surfaces of the feet are pur- plish black. Length, 17r> mm.; tail to end of vertebrae, 225; tail to end of hairs. :'»()(); ear from crown. 18; ear from notch. 30; head, 67; hind foot. 66. Cranial cha
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. car-, feet, inner surface of limbs, and all of under surface of body orange-buff. Tail grizzled above, in the median area, with broad, lateral, subterminal bands of black and broad yellowish white tips to the hairs; under side of tail tricolored, orange-buff mesially, this bor- dered successively by black and yellowish white. The naked under surfaces of the feet are pur- plish black. Length, 17r> mm.; tail to end of vertebrae, 225; tail to end of hairs. :'»()(); ear from crown. 18; ear from notch. 30; head, 67; hind foot. 66. Cranial characters.âThis species has but one premolar on each side, above. Skull in texianus (fig. 45) low, with a weak rostrum; superior profile flattened in the frontal region, sharply declining posteriorly; postorbital processes of ter texiams. dorsal medium length and sharply deflected; audital view of ski]. Fort . .. ,, . . « , , Clark, Texas. ( bulla*, small; incisive foramen, long and nar- 12710, Amer. Mus. Nat. row; interpterygoid fossa, long, nearly equal- ⢠ing the length of the upper lateral tooth-row. Greatest length of skull. 61 mm.; greatest breadth, :'>.'>. Remarks.âThe color of the under surface fades with wear and exposure until it becomes nearly white, and its intensity is also subject to some individ- ual variation. On the whole, the form is re- markably uniform. No black individuals were seen or heard of. though the fox squir- rel of northeastern Texas is frequently mel- anistic. Dr. J. A. Allen" mentions a speci- men from Rockport, Aransas County, Texas, "not appreciably different from speci- mens from the type locality (San Pedro or Devils River) of Baird's Sciurus limitis (=texianus), recently received from Dr. E. A. ; An adult female (Cat. Xo. 6304&, ) from Kickapoo Springs, Mason County. Texas, has five pairs of mammae. Habits and hxul distribution.âOn January 31, IS')--!. I noted a line fox squirrel, se
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