We interrupt our normally scheduled programming for a special report of Southwestern Red Squirrel a.k.a. Fremont’s Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus fremonti), spotted outside Pinetop/Lakeside in Arizona:
[Editor’s note: Colonel Frémont, an American explorer of the Rocky Mountains, etc., provided numerous specimens to Audubon and collaborator John Bachman, with Tamiasciurus fremonti first described in The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1853), published after Audubon’s death in 1851. This is the original plate, painted by Audubon’s son John Woodhouse Audubon (Fig. 1 is Fremont’s Squirrel):
