134 Merriam New Ground Squirrels. 



lected the type specimen. Numerous specimens were obtain ed by 

 the expedition in Kern Valley, Walker Pass, Owens Valley, and 

 in the Coso, Argus, and Panamint Mountains, California. 



Speimophilus chrysodeirus brevicaudus subs-p. nov. 



SAX BERNARDINO SPERMOPHILE. 



Type from SAN BERNARDINO PEAK, CALIFORNIA. No. 56661 9 a( l. 

 United States National Museum, Department of Agriculture collection. 

 Collected October 9, 1893, by J. E. McLellan (original number, 274). 



Measurements of Type Specimen (taken in flesh). Total length, ; tail 

 vertebrae, ; hind foot, . 



General Characters. Similar to S. chrysodeirus, but with much 

 shorter tail, somewhat shorter hind foot, and duller mantle over 

 head and shoulders. The tail averages about 75 mm., while 

 that of chrysodeirus averages 90 mm. or more. 



Color (of type specimen). Back and rump grizzled gray tinged 

 with brownish ; sides paler; a dull fulvous mantle over head 

 and neck, hardly reaching shoulders ; color of head shading to- 

 ward brick-red; sides of neck behind ears buffy-ochraceous ; a 

 broad whitish stripe, bordered on each side by a broad black 

 stripe, extends from the shoulder to the rump on each side, and 

 the white reaches beyond the black in both directions ; hind 

 foot dull whitish : tail above, proximal half grizzled'; distal half 

 black, edged with fulvous ; tail below, chestnut, bordered with 

 black and edged with fulvous. 



Number of specimens examined, 7 ; all from San Bernardino 

 Mountains, California. 



Tamias panamintinus sp. nov. 



PANAMINT CHIPMUNK. 



Type from PANAMINT MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA (between Death Valley 

 and Panamint Valley). Exact locality, Johnson Canon. No. H^l $ 

 ad. United States National Museum, Department of Agriculture collec- 

 tion. Collected by E. W. Nelson April 3, 1891 (original number, 723). 



Measurements of Type Specimen (taken in flesh). Total length, 208 ; tail 

 vertebra?, 96; hind foot, 31. Ear from notch, 16 (measured in dry skin). 

 Average measurements of 50 adult specimens from type locality: total 

 length, 208; tail vertebrae, 90.4; hind foot, 31. 



General Characters. About the size of T. quadrwittatiis, but re- 

 sembles T. speciosus much more closely in coloration, being a 

 paler form with obsolescent facial stripes and less distinct dorsal 

 stripes, which are shorter posteriorly, leaving the rump clear 

 gray. Ears smaller than in speciosu.s; ear stripes nearly obso- 



