JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (AFTER)

HARE SQUIRREL; DOUGLASS SQUIRREL; RED-TAILED SQUIRREL; ORANGE-BELLIED SQUIRREL; FOX SQUIRREL; ANNULATED MARMOT SQUIRREL; FRANKLIN'S MARMOT SQUIRREL; and SAY'S SQUIRREL (Plates XLIII, XLVIII, LV, LVIII, LXVIII, LXXIX, LXXXIV, LXXXIX) Fine, fresh impressions, with touches of gum arabic, 1843- -46, plate XLVIII with a long semi-circular repaired tear in the blank area at left, another smaller repaired tear at left, not affecting the subject, plate LVIII with four small tears in the lower margin, not affecting the subject, two with a small loss at upper right, one with a tiny loss at lower left associated with disbinding, all with slight soiling and a few fox marks, mainly in the margins (8) Ranges: Plate XLIII: pine and oak forests of Transition (and Upper Austral Zone) from Washington to Oregon and California; Mexico Plate XLVIII: Washington and Oregon coasts from Cape Blanco to Puget Sound Plate LV: most of Mississippi valley from Louisiana to Wisconsin Plate LVIII: If this is the Texas Fox Squirrel, the range is coastal Louisiana and Mississippi; if it is the Western Fox Squirrel, the range is most of Mississippi valley from Louisiana to Wisconsin Plate LXVIII: Florida and south east states Plate LXXIV: Indiana to Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska; north Saskatchewan Plate LXXIX: Mexico Plate LXXXIX: Mississippi valley, from Louisiana to Wisconsin See illustration of one.