SPERMOPHILUS. 



tal ring pale. Tail above gra)', brown and black intermingled, bor- 

 dered with black and edged with jellowish white ; beneath brownish 

 red bordered with black. 



Measurements. Total length, 433 ; tail vertebra;, 75. 



Fig. 20. SPERMOPHILUS (COLOBOTIS) KADIACENSIS. 

 No. u Field Columbian Museum Coll. Nat. size. 



a.—kadiacensis. (Spermophilus'), Allen, Proc. Bost. See, 1874, p. 292. 



Typt locality. Island of Kadiak, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. Kadiak Island only. 



Genl. Char. Equal in size to 5. empetra, but more gray, white 

 blotches more numerous. Tail shorter. 



Color. Above mixed gray, brown and black profusely spotted 

 with white ; top of head chestnut ; orbital ring yellowish white ; flanks 

 gray faintly spotted with white ; rest of pelage fulvous or buff ; dark 

 colored bases of hairs on under parts showing through. Tail above 

 at base like back, grading into black and edged with fulvous ; beneath 

 reddish, with black subterminal bar, and fringed with yellowish. 



Measurements. Total length, 398; tail vertebrae, 108; hind foot, 59. 





