88 SPERMOPHILUS. 



108. grammurus. (.SV/V//7/.f ), Saj-, in Long's Exped. Rock\' Mts., 1823, 

 II, p. 72. 



couchii. Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 311, pi. 81. 



Type locality. Purgatory Creek, Colorado, Lat. 37^ 32'; Long. 

 103° 30'. 



Geogr. Distr. Parks of central Colorado, south to Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Tail long, full, bushy; earslarge, body large, stout; 

 soles of feet smooth. 



Color. Above gray mottled with brownish white and black; 

 washed posteriorly with brown; sides of neck and flanks pure gray; 

 inside of limbs brownish white; under parts pale yellowish white, 

 feet gray. Tail grayish white with three black bands. 



Measurements. Total length, 530 ; tail vertebrae, 200 ; hind 

 foot, 60. 



a — beecheyi. (Arctomys), Richard, Faun. Bor. Amer., 1829, i, p. 170. 



californiciis. Less. Mamm. and Ois. Nouv. , 1847, p. 143. 



Type locality. California. Vicinity of San Francisco or Mon- 

 terey. ? 



Geogr. Distr. West of Sierra Nevada, northern California. 



Genl. Char. Size large, ears large, prominent. Tail more than 

 two-thirds length of body. 



Color. Above mixed black and pale yellowish brown; top of 

 head dark brown; sides of head and neck and patch behind the ear 

 yellowish gray, in some lights nearly white; these patches extend in 

 a more or less slender line on either side above shoulders nearly to 

 middle of body; back indistinctly spotted in buff, arranged in some- 

 what irregular transverse lines. Under parts pale yellowish white, 

 or pale buff. Tail above black sprinkled with yellowish white tipped 

 hairs, and edged with pale yellowish brown, with three black mar- 

 ginal lines, outermost broadest and most distinct, and fringed with 

 yellowish white and tipped with black. 



Measurements. Total length, 402; tail vertebra, 140; hind foot, 

 60; ear 34. 



b.—fisheri. (Spermophilus), Merr.,Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1893, p. 133. 



Type locality. Kern Valley, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Western border of Nevada, central and southern 

 California. 



Genl. Char. Like 5. beecheyi, but paler. 



Color. Similar to .S. beecheyi, but sides of neck and shoulder 

 stripes silvery white ; body spotted on sides with whitish bordered 

 with dusky ; lower part of face whitish ; under parts and feet buffy. 



Measurements. Total length, 415; tail vertebrae, 175; hind foot, 58. 



