94 TAMIAS. 



RELATED CHIPMUNK. 



Type locality. Wahsatch foothills near Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 Geogr. Distr. Eastern border of the Great Basin, in eastern Utah, 

 western and southern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. 



//. T in in* in i iii in ax iiK-lniui rnx Merriam. 



Tamias minimus melannnis Merr., X. Am. Faun., No. 4, 1890, 

 j>. 22. Elliot. Syn. X. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, 

 \>. ->). Zool. Ser. 

 BLACK-TAILED CHIPMUNK. 



Type locality. Xear Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho. 

 Geogr. Distr. Kn<>\vn only from type locality. 



0. Tun i ins n i i iii in it* />ir/iix Allen. 



Tamils minimus pictus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1890, p. 115. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 

 1901, p. 79. Zool. Ser. 

 PAINTED CHIPMUNK. 



Tvpe locality. Kelton, Boxelder County, Utah. 

 Geogr. Distr. Western border of Great Salt Lake westward, and 

 from southern Utah and southern Nevada to the Snake Plains of 

 eastern Washington. 



il. TII in id* in i Hi in us (i/ftinns (Merriam). 



Tamias alpinns Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vin, 1893, p. 137. 



Tamias minimus alpinns Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., n, 1901, p. 79. Zool. Ser. 

 ALPINE CHIPMUNK. 



Type locality. Big Cottonwood Meadows, high Sierras, Tulare 

 County, California, south of Mt. Whitney. 



Geogr. Distr. Alpine summit of high Sierras, California. 



181. Tamias lectus (Allen). 



J-'.ntamias Icetns Allen, Bull. Brookl. Inst. Arts & Scien., I, No. 5, 



1905, p. i 17. 

 BEAVHR YAU.I.Y CHIPMUNK. 



Type l<alily. Beaver Valley, Beaver County, Utah. 



Geogr. l>istr. Unknown. 



Color. I'cist-hiTca'ing /Y/<ur. Similar in size to T. m. pit Ins, but 

 colors stronger; Hanks, shoulders, anl sides of neck, deep rufous; 

 face slrij.es broader and darker, and light stripes narrower; post- 

 auricular patch gray; central area of tail beneath bright rufous. 



Breeding /Y/<uy. Closely resembling the coloration of T. cinerei- 



