RODENTIA: SCIURIDAE 219 



Subgenus NEOTAMIAS M A. H. Howell (western chipmunks) 



1929. Neotamias A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 52, p. 26, Nov. 30, 

 1929. (Type, Eutamias merriami (J. A. Allen).) 



alpinus — group 

 Eutamias alpinus (Merriam)f* 



1893. Tamias alpinus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 8, p. 137, 



Dec. 28, 1893. 

 1897. Eutamias alpinus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 191, 



July 1, 1897. 

 Type Locality. — Big Cottonwood Meadows, just south of Mount Whitney, 

 Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, Calif. Altitude, 10,000 feet. Range. — Highest 

 parts of crest and principal western spurs of Sierra Nevada, in central California, 

 from Mount Conness, Tuolumne County, south to Olancha Peak. Westernmost 

 records of occurrence are Mount Hoffmann, Mount Clark, Horse Corral Meadows, 

 and Mineralking; easternmost records are Warren Fork of Leevining Creek, Mono 

 Pass, Onion Valley, and Little Cottonwood Creek; zonal range, Hudsonian and 

 Arctic- Alpine ; locally Canadian (Johnson, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 48, 

 No. 2, p. 73, Dec. 24, 1943). 



minimus — group 



Eutamias minimus minimus (Bachman) * 



1839. Tamias minimus Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8, 



pt. 1, p. 71. 

 1884. Tamias asiaticus pallidus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 



Circ. 29) , p. 593, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1901. Eutamias minimus Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 30, 



p. 42, Dec. 27, 1901. 

 1929. Eutamias minimus minimus A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 52, 



p. 29, Nov. 30, 1929. 

 Type Locality. — Near Green River City, Sweetwater County, Wyo. (See J. A. 

 Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 112, June 1890.) Range— Central 

 and southwestern Wyoming and extreme northwestern Colorado. Recorded also 

 at Linwood on Henry's Fork, Daggett County, northeastern Utah; zonal range, 

 Upper Sonoran; vertical range, 5,800 to 8,500 feet altitude (Svihla, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 12, No. 3, p. 260, Aug. 24, 1931) . 



Eutamias minimus silvaticus White* 



1952. Eutamias minimus silvaticus White, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 5, No. 19, p. 261, Apr. 10, 1952. 



Type Locality. — Three miles northwest of Sundance, Crook County, Wyo. 

 Altitude, 5,900 feet. Range. — Bear Lodge Mountains in northeastern Wyoming 

 and Black Hills of South Dakota. 



Eutamias minimus pictus (J. A. Allen) f * 



1890. Tamias minimus pictus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, 

 p. 115, June 1890. 



74 Revised by A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 52, pp. 26-153, Nov. 30, 1929. California 

 races of Eutamias (Neotamias) reviewed by Johnson, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 48, 

 No. 2, pp. 63-148, Dec. 24, 1943. 



