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194 8CIURU8.
Sciurus poliopus senex Nelson. Biological Survey collection.
Tioc. Biol. Soi-. Wash., XVII, pp. 148-149, October 6, 1904.
12()208. Skin and skull. Adult fenjale. La Salada, Michoacan,
Mexico. March 14, 1903. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A.
(loldman. Original number 16127.
\\\'ll-niade skin in good condition; skull perfect, except forabsence of tirst left
ui)iH'r premolar.
Sciurus seraiae Miller.
True. Wash. Acad. Sci., Ill, p. 125, March 26, 1901.
104660. Skin and skull. Adult male. Pulo Seraia, Natuna Islands.
May 29, 1900. Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Original number
415. Catalogued December 17, 1900.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.
Sciurus serutus Miller.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, No. 1481, p. 58, July 23, 1906.
125025. Skin and skull. Adult male. Pulo Serutu, Karimata Islands,
oif west coast of Borneo. August 17, 1904. Collected by Dr.
W. L. Abbott. Original number 8584. Catalogued December 7,
1904.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect.
Sciurus suckleyi Baiixl.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., VII, p. 333, this paper was reported favorably for
j)ublication April 24, 1855.
= Sciurus douglasii Bachman. See Baird, Mannnals of North America, p. 275,
1857.
Tfifs^- Skin and skull. Adult male. Steilacooni, Washington,
rlanuary 13, 1854. Collected by Dr. George Suckle5'', U. S. A.,
Pacific Railroad Survey. Original mmiber 1. Skin catalogued
March 17, 1S54; skull, November 1, 1898.
Specimen made into a modern study skin and the skull removed in November,
1898. The skin is in fair condition, but the left fore leg is lacking. Only that
part of the skull anterior to the brain-case, and the right half of the mandible is
present.
In Baird's original description he gives the three measurements "Head and
body 9 inches. Tail vertebnt' 4^ inches. To tip of hairs 6 inches." In 1S57, in
his Mammals of North America, Baird gives more details of the Pacific Railroad
specimens, and in the table on page 278, No. 272, the above specimen is the only
one which agrees with tlie above three measurements, and consecjuently it is
taken as the type.
Sciurus sullivanus Miller.
Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., XLV, No. 1420, j). 17, November 6, 1903.
104377. Skin and skull. Adult female. Sullivan Island, Mergui
Archipelago. February 1, 1900. Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott.
Original numl)er 294. Catalogued November 6, 1900.
Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except left pterygoid.