522 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MVSEUil. vol. 45. 



CITELLUS EVERSMANNI (Brandt). 



1841. Spermophilus CTcrsmanni Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. St.-P6tersbourg, vol. 9, 



p. 43. 

 1903. Citellus eversmannii Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 19, p. 142, 



March 31. 



We first saw this spermophile at Clierga, two days' journey south 

 from Biisk. Two young specimens were killed in the house where we 

 spent the night at that place. The people called them rats and 

 seemed little surprised to find them m the buildings. The next day, 

 June 20, we noted many of the animals between Shebalina and 

 Tapucha. Every grassy fiat was inhabited by them, and though a 

 cold rain was falling the spermophiles paid no attention to it and 

 were apparently all out feeding. Ground squirrels were abundant in 

 the Alpine flats between Tapucha and Ongudai, but only a few were 

 seen beyond Ongudai until we reached the desert frontier range. The 

 animals were exceedingly abundant about, our Tchegan-Burgazi 

 camp, and during our stay in this neighborhood we collected a series 

 of 50 specimens. During the early part of July most of the animals, 

 and especially the nursing females, were in a faded and ragged state 

 of pelage, but before the end of the month we secured many speci- 

 mens in the bright, fresh coat. The great difference in age between 

 numerous young examples indicates a long breeding season. We 

 found spermophiles in all sorts of places, and the burrows were placed 

 both in rocky cliifs and far out in the open alplands. In addition to 

 innumerable fleas, the spermophiles are terribly infested with botts 

 {Cuter ebra, sp.) and it is rare to obtain an example without half a 

 dozen or more in some part of the skin. 



Our Tartar and Kalmuk camp men called this species "you-mali- 

 runk' .'' 



EUTAMIAS ASIATICUS ALTAICUS Hollister. 



1912. Eutamias asiaticus cUaicus Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 25, 

 p. 183, December 24. 



A single cliipmunk was seen at Cliibit, June 26. Later, in the 

 heavier forested region south of Tapucha, we found the species abun- 

 dant and collected a series of 12 specimens. Not one was seen be- 

 yond a point about 15 miles south of Tapucha. The animal is re- 

 markably quiet for a chipmunk 'and might readily be passed many 

 times unobserved. Only rarely did we hear a low "chip" note. 



OCHOTONA NITIDA Hollister. 



1912. Ochotona nitida Hollister, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 14, p. 4, No- 

 vember 29. 



Thirty-one specimens; 17 from near the Mongolian border in 

 Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, and 14 from the Tapucha camp. Along the 

 upper Chuya River, in Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, we found pikas chiefly 

 in the lower rocky cliffs along the main river and its tributaiy, Tschor- 

 nia Creek, at about 8,500 feet elevation. The call note is decidedly 

 different from that of the American pikas, and was not at first recog- 



