286 Field Columbian Museum — Zoology, Vol. III. 



altitudes of the species being from 9,000 to 10,000 feet. At the 

 Hot Springs their range overlaps that of the gray squirrel, but 

 the two species inhabit different kinds of timber." 



TAMIAS. 

 Tamias merriami. 



Tamias asiaticus merriami Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 1889, p. 176. 



Tamias merriami Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 71. 



13 specimens from Lockwood Valley, Mt. Pinos. Altitude, 

 5,000 feet. 



"This species was found abundantly about Mt. Pinos at from 

 5.000 to 6,000 feet in the scrub-oak and pinon timber. At the 

 time of our visit, early in October, the chipmunks were busy 

 gathering the nuts of the pinon, Finns monophylla, and the 

 ground at the bases of the trees was covered with heaps of cone 

 scales, from which radiated the trails of the chipmunks in everv 

 direction. About Fort Tejon, which is below the Pinon Belt, 

 these animals were more scarce and confined to thickets of scrub- 

 oaks, Quercus chrysolepis and <]. dumora. Several were found 

 living in deserted nests of Neotoma f. streatori." 



This was the only chipmunk seen upon Mt. Pinos, no indi- 

 viduals of Tamias callipeplus having been observed. 



Tamias callipeplus inyoensis. 



Tamias c. inyoensis Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, 

 p. 208; Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 73. 



Two examples were procured at the summit of the Invo 

 Range, at an elevation of 8,500 feet. 



"In this region the species was found largely on the bristle- 

 cone pine, Piiius aristata, occasionallv straying to the upper 

 limits of the limber pine, Piiuis flcxilis, and the summit of the 

 range east of Lone Pine marks the southern limits of the two 

 pines which this chipmunk inhabits, and consequently at this 

 point but few were seen." 



Tamias frater. 



Tamias frater Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 88; 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 73. 



22 Specimens from Mt. Whitney, 6 Monache Meadows, 1 Hot 

 Springs, 2 Big Cottonwood Lakes, 7 Big Cottonwood Meadows, 

 6 Whitnev Creek. 



