. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. r« ,., Slit 276 NORTHERN GRAY SQUIRREL. have bare ears, and two (one of them being of the black variety) have the ears fringed ; differing in no other respect, except the general ful! r development of the hair, from the other specimens of their respective ; We are moreover under an impression that the specimen of the North- ern Gray Squirrel, from which Pekay took his measurement, must have been a young animal. He gives head and body, eight inches : tail, eight inches five lines. Out of more
. The quadrupeds of North America [microform]. Mammals; Rodentia; Mammifères; Rongeurs. r« ,., Slit 276 NORTHERN GRAY SQUIRREL. have bare ears, and two (one of them being of the black variety) have the ears fringed ; differing in no other respect, except the general ful! r development of the hair, from the other specimens of their respective ; We are moreover under an impression that the specimen of the North- ern Gray Squirrel, from which Pekay took his measurement, must have been a young animal. He gives head and body, eight inches : tail, eight inches five lines. Out of more than fifty specimens that we have mea- sured in the flesh, there was not one that measured less than ten inches in body and eleven inches in tail. The true S. cuiercus or iS'. vulpinus has moreover not the phical range as the Northern Gray Squirrel. It is not found in Canada, where the present species is common, nor in the most northerly parts of either New-York or the New-England States. We obtained several specimens from the New-York market, and as we have shown in our ar- ticle on S. cinereus, it is occasionally found in the southern counties of the State ; but it is a very rare species north and east of Pennsylvania, and is principally confined to the Middle and some of the South-western States. The Northern Gray Squirrel (-S. migrntorius) may be easily distinguish ed from the Carolina Gray Squirrel {S. carolinensis) by its larger size, broader tail, and lighter gray colours on the sides, and by its smaller persistent tooth. S. cinereus or S. vulpinus differs from this species in being a little longer, having a much stouter body and legs, and a longer tail. It has, in proportion to its size, shorter ears, which are more rounded, and have the tufts or fringes in winter much shorter. The fur is also coarser, and it has in each upper jaw but four teeth, dropping its milk- tooth when very young, whilst the Northern Gray Squirrel {S. migra- torius) has five on eac
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