TAMIAS. 137 



mixed with yellowish chestnut; outermost ones yellowish chestnut 

 mixed with blackish; median light stripes gray, outer ones grayish 

 white; facial stripes white and black, bordered with rusty; ears on 

 center at base black, edge margined with rusty and tipped with 

 white; large white patch at base of ear; under parts and upper sur- 

 face of hands and feet grayish white; tail above black mixed with 

 buff, and hairs white-tipped, beneath ochraceous, bordered with 

 black and fringed with white. 



Measurements. Total length, 250; tail vertebrae, 98; hind foot, 

 33. Skull: average total length, 36.6; greatest breadth, 23. 



100. durangse (Eutamias), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1903, 



P- 595- 

 DURANGO CHIPMUNK. 



Type locality. Arroyo de Bucy, State of Durango, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Similar to T. bulleri but larger and paler. 



Color. ' ' Similar to E.(T.) bulleri from southwestern Zacatecas, but 

 larger and paler, with the white markings on the head broader, and 

 the white post-auricular patch larger; rump, basal portion of the 

 tail, and flanks faintly suffused with a very pale tinge of buff instead 

 of being gray as in bulleri; the dark dorsal stripes are similar in 

 extent and in color, but the intervening light stripes are suffused 

 with pale cinnamon instead of being nearly clear white as in bulleri, 

 and the rufous of the flanks is much paler. (Allen, 1. c.) 



Measurements. Total length, 238; tail vertebrae, 98; hind foot, 

 32; ear from notch, 19. Skull: total length, 39; zygomatic width, 21. 



101. merriami (Tamias), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, 



p. 84. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 71. 



asiaticus merriami Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1889, p. 176. 

 MERRIAM'S CHIPMUNK. 



Type locality. San Bernardino Mountains, California. 



Geogr. Distr. From Tulare and Monterey Counties, California, 

 south in the mountains into Lower California, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size large; color pale; facial and dorsal marking not 

 strongly contrasted; ears high, pointed. 



Color. Above dull yellowish gray mixed in places with fulvous; 

 dorsal stripes pale yellowish to fulvous brown, the light ones pale 

 gray; sides and rump pale olivaceous; tail above blackish, fringed 

 with gray, beneath reddish chestnut, bordered with black and 

 fringed with whitish. 



Post-breeding Pelage. Flanks golden rufous; dark dorsal stripes 

 yellowish rufous; light ones silver gray; tail beneath orange chestnut, 

 above orange yellow. 



