SCIURID.E— SPEKMOPHILUS FRANKLINI. 



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Table CXXIII.— List of specimens examined of Sp. tridecemlineatus var. pali.idus — Continued. 



* In Miisenm of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



SPERMOPHILUS FRANKLINI (Sabine) Lesson. 

 Franklin's Spermophile; Gray beaded Spermophile. 



Arctomys franklini Sabine, Traus. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1822, 587, pi. xxvii; ibid. Narr. Franklin's Joum. 1822, 

 662 (Fort Enterprise and Cumberland House). — Harlan, Faun. Am. 1825, 167.— Godman, 

 Am. Nat. Hist, ii, 1826, 109.— Fischer, Synop. Mam. 1829, 343. 



Arctomys (Spermojihilus) franklini Riciiardson, Faun. Bor.-Am. i, 1829, 168, pi. xii. 



Spermophilm franklini Lesson, Man. de Mam. 1827. 244. — " F. Cuvier, Suppl. Buffon, i, 1831, Mamm. 328." — 

 Wagner, Suppl. Schreber's Siiuget. iii, 1843, 244, pi. ccx, A ('' Arctomys Franklini Sabine" on 

 plate).— Brandt, Bull. Physico-math. Classe Acad. St. P6torsb. ii, 1844, 379.— Audubon & 

 Bachman, Quad. N. Am. ii, 1851, 248, pi. lxxxiv\ — Schinz, Syn. Mam. ii, 1845, 67. — Kenni- 

 Cott, Patent Office Rep. 1856, Agricult. (1857), 79, pi. ix— Baird, Mam. N. Am. 1857, 314, 

 pi. xlvi, fig. 4 (skull).— Thomas, Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc. iv, 1881, 657.— Hayden, Traus. Am. 

 Phil. Soc. Phila. xii, 1863, 145.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xiii, 1870, 189 (Iowa); 

 xvi, 1874, 291. — Bishop, Forest and Stream, vii, 1877, 342 (its introduction into New Jersey). 



Specific chars. — Length to base of tail 9.00 to 10.50 ; of tail to end 

 of vertebras 5.00 to 6.50 ; to end of hairs 6.25 to 8.50. Above, yellowish- 

 brown, varied with black, the black chiefly in the form of small squarish 

 spots ; eyelids white ; front and sides of head and neck, the thighs, and but- 

 tocks pure gray ; top of head gray, sometimes varied more or less with 

 yellowish-brown; below, grayish-white; tail grayish-white, with three lines 

 of black, the outer quite broad and broadly edged with white. Ear small, 

 about 0.20 high; tail-vertebrae about one-half the length of the head and 

 body; tail distichous, hairs long and abundant; form rather slender; pelage 

 harsh, consisting of coarse stiff hairs, without under fur. 

 56 m 



