40 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 75 



Genus EUTAMIAS Trouessart 



EUTAMIAS ASIATICUS ALBOGULARIS J. A. Allen 



Eutamias albogularis J. A. Aixen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 26, 1909, 

 p. 429 (Taipeishan, Shensi, China). 



Specimens. — Two from Kansii, probably from the neighborhood of 

 Choni. 



These are juveniles but are easily distinguishable from inte7xessor 

 of the same province by the distinctness of the five dark dorsal stripes 

 and by the buffy, almost yellow underparts. 



EUTAMIAS ASIATICUS INTERCESSOR Thomas 



Eutamias asiaticus intercessor Thomas, Abst. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, 

 p. 44 (Ningwufu, Shensi, China). 



&peciinens. — Twenty: Mountains 30 miles west of Kueihuacheng, 

 Shansi, 1 ; Lanchow, 10 ; and Chingningchow, Kansu, 9. 



One of the specimens from Chingningchow was compared by 

 Miller with the type and pronounced entirely typical. Hence there 

 is no question of the identity of the present series. This race was 

 said by Thomas to be intermediate in general tone between senescens 

 and ordinalis but I find it duller and darker even than the former. 

 The rump is less bright, head grayer, stripes blacker, and foot larger. 

 The Kueihuacheng specimens are tentatively placed here as they 

 more closely resemble this form than any other. The shoulders are 

 very gray, face markings bright, and the lighter dorsal stripes par- 

 ticularly whitish. 



EUTAMIAS ASIATICUS ORDINALIS Thomas 



Eutamias asiaticus ordvnaUs Thomas, Abst. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, 

 p. 44 (Yulinfu, Shansi, China). 



/Specimens. — Seventeen: 50 miles northwest of Sianfu, 1, and 

 Yulinfu, Shensi, 1; 30 miles west of Linghsien, 1, and from 18 to 

 95 miles west of Taiyuanfu, Shansi, 13; and the vicinity of Ching- 

 ningchow, Kansu, 1. 



This is a very pale race. The single specimen from Kansu is 

 indisting-uishable from the topotype, although other specimens from 

 this vicinity are unquestionably intercessor. Most of the Shansi 

 examples are not typical and the only way in which they can be 

 distinguished from senescens is by the grayer nuchal region and 

 paler, less rufous sides. In his notes Mr. Sowerby writes that in 

 Shansi and Shensi these active creatures are to be found every- 

 where, living as they do in woods, in loess gullies and even in stony 

 river beds. They depend mostly on the cultivated fields for their 

 food but he has found their pouches filled with the seeds of grass 



