292 BULLETIN 79, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family SCIURIDiE. 



Genus MARMOTA Blumenbach. 



1779. Marmota Bluisienbach, Handb. d. Naturgescli., vol. 1, 

 p. 79. Type, Mus marmota Linn^us. 



*Marmota caligata (Eschscholtz). 



1829. Arctomys caligatus Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, part 2, p. 1, 



pi. 6. 

 1885. Arctomys pruinosus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 

 (1884), p. 593. (Not of Gmelin.) 



1903. Marmotta caligata Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 19, p. 539. October 10, 1903. 



Type Locality. — Near Bristol Bay, Alaska. 



For use of the name caligata in place of pruinosa see Tyrrell, Proc. Canadi;vu 

 Inst., Toronto, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 88, October, 1888. 



t*Marmota dacota (Meniam). 



1S89. Arctomys dacota Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 2, 

 p. 8. October 30, 1889. 



1904. [Marmota] dacota Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. viv. foss., 

 suppl., p. 344. 



Type Locality. — Custer, Black Hills, South Dakota. 



*Marmota engelhardti Allen. 



1905. Marmota engelhardti Allen, Mus. Brooklyn Acad. Arts 

 and Sci., Science Bull., vol. 1, p. 120. March 31, 1905. 



Type Locality. — Briggs Meadows, Beaver Range Mountains, 

 Beaver County, Utah. 



*Marmota flaviventer flaviventer (Audubon and Bachman). 



1841. Arctomys flaviventer A-UDJJBOis! and Bachman, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 99. 

 1885. Arctomys flaviventer True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, 



(1884), p. 593. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — "Mountams between Texas and California." 



*Marmota flaviventer avara (Bangs). 



1899. Arctomys flaviventer avarus Bangs, Proc. New England 



Zool. Club, voL 1, p. 68. July 31, 1899. 

 1904. [Marmota flaviventer] avarus Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. 



viv. foss., suppl., p. 344. 

 Type Locality. — Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. 



Marmota ignava (Bangs). 



1899. Arctomys ignavus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 



vol. 1, p. 13. February 28, 1899. 

 Type Locality.— Black Bay, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador. 



