Sciurus pyrrhinus Thomas, 1898 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 2:265.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Junin Dept., Vitoc, Garita del Sol .

DISTRIBUTION: E slopes of the Andes of Peru.

SYNONYMS: variabilis Tschudi, 1844.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Hadrosciurus; see Cabrera (1961:378). J. A. Allen (19156) placed pyrrhinus in the genus Mesosciurus .