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1936. TamiasciuTus hudsonicus petulans A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 49, p. 136, Aug. 22, 1936. 



Type Locality. — Glacier, White Pass, southern Alaska. Altitude, 1,870 feet. 

 Range. — Lynn Canal and White Pass region of northern part of Alaska Pan- 

 handle and closely adjacent parts of extreme northwestern British Columbia 

 (Anderson, Nat. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 119, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Tamiasciurus hudsonicus picatus (Swarth) * 



?1839. Sciurus lanuginosus Bachman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, pt. 6, 

 p. 101, Feb. 7, 1839. ("Northwest coast, near Sitka" = near Fort McLaugh- 

 lin, Denny Island, British Columbia, Canada. See Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 20, p. 44, Apr. 18, 1907. For status, see Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 120, Jan. 24, 1947.) 

 1921. Sciurus hudsonicus picatus Swarth, Journ. Mamm., vol. 2, No. 2, p. 92, 



May 2, 1921. 

 1936. T[amiasciurus] h[udsonicus] picatus A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, vol. 49, p. 135, Aug. 22, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — Kupreanof Island, 25 miles south of Kake Village, at southern 

 end of Keku Straits, southeastern Alaska. Range. — Mainland and islands near 

 coast of southeastern Alaska from Lynn Canal southward along northwestern 

 coast of British Columbia for an undetermined distance, intergrading in the 

 north with petulans and in the south with Vancouver ensis (Anderson, loc. cit.) . 

 Recorded by Swarth (Journ. Mamm., vol. 2, No. 2, p. 93, May 2, 1921) from 

 Kupreanof, Kuiu, Mitkof, Wrangell, Zarembo, Etolin, Revillagigedo, and Sergief 

 Islands, and on adjacent mainland from mouth of Taku River south to mouth of 

 Skeena River. 



Tamiasciurus hudsonicus vancouverensis (J. A. Allen) * 



1890. Sciurus hudsonius [sic] vancouverensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 165, Nov. 14, 1890. (Regarded as a distinct species by 

 Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 10, p. 27, Oct. 6, 1900.) 

 1940. Tamiasciurus hudsonicus vancouverensis Hayman and Holt, in Ellerman, 



The families and genera of living rodents, vol. 1, p. 347, June 8, 1940. 

 Type Locality. — Duncan Station, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 

 Range. — The whole of Vancouver Island from Victoria to Cape Scott; also in 

 typical form on some of islands northeast of Vancouver Island from outside of 

 Bute Inlet (Small Gillard Island, Yuculta Rapids) north at least to Calvert 

 Island; intergrading with picatus further north (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada 

 Bull. 102 (1946), p. 121, Jan. 24, 1947.) 



Tamiasciurus hudsonicus columbiensis A. H. Howell* 



1936. Tamiasciurus hudsonicus columbiensis A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 49, p. 135, Aug. 22, 1936. 



Type Locality. — Raspberry Creek, about 30 miles southeast of Telegraph Creek, 

 northern British Columbia, Canada. Range. — Northern and central British 

 Columbia (Alaska Highway) and southern Yukon, from vicinity of Lake La- 

 berge, Yukon, south to Chilcotin River, British Columbia, and eastward to Banff 

 and Jasper National Parks in Rocky Mountains of western Alberta (Anderson, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 ( 1946) , p. 118, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



