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and several were killed near our camps by eating poisoned meat laid 

 for wolves and large game. In the logging camps around Flagstaff 

 and along the then new Mineral Bell Railroad they occasioned much 

 inconvenience l>y their persistent pilfering of grain and food stores. 

 At Fern Spring, near Bakers Unite, in the Mogollon Range east of 

 Fort Verde the young were running about by the middle of July. 

 There they became particularly hold and troublesome, carrying off 

 everything eatable that they could find in our summer camp. It was 

 next to impossible to preserve our horses' forage. When once they 

 gained access to a sack of grain, they made hold to carry it off into 

 their underground storehouses before our eyes. They openly fre- 

 quented our cook tents, abstracting therefrom whatever they wanted 

 and could carry. They nibbled at our bacon and salt pork and 

 approached our mess table at meal times entreating to be i\^\. Though 

 an awkward load, one could manage to carry away a large cam}) bis- 

 cuit, an amusing performance. Among them was an albino and sev- 

 eral more or less albinistic individuals. Many were trapped, but they 

 were so abundant that there was no perceptible diminution of their 

 numbers. The soldiers carried a number of them to Fort Verde (alti- 

 tude only 3,300 feet) as pets; some escaped and took 14) their abode 

 beneath the quarters, where they thrived, increased, and became a 

 nuisance. 



CALLOSPERMOPHILUS BERNARDINUS (Merrriam). 

 SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAIN GROUND-SQUIRREL. 



SpermophUus cJirysodeirus brevicaudus Mkkriam. Proc. Biol. Sue. Washington, 



VIII, p. 134, Dec 28, 1893. 1 Not of Brandt, 1844.) 

 SpermophUus (Callospermophilus) bernardinus Merriam, Science, New Ser., VI II, 



p. 782, Dec. 2, 1898. 

 SpermophUus bernardinus, Miller and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., XXX, No. 1. 



Dec 27, 1!H)1, p. 47 (Syst. Results Study X. Am. Main, to close of Mime . 

 [SpermophUus chrysodeirus] bernardinus, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., II. 



1901, p. 84 (Synop. Mam. X. Am.). 



The following is the original description: 



Type from San Bernardino Peak, California. No. 56661, female adult. I'. S. 

 National .Museum, Department of Agriculture collection. Collected October 9, 1893, 

 by J. E. McLellan (original number, 274). 



General characters. — Similar to N. chrysodeirus, but with much shorter tail, some- 

 what shorter hind foot, and duller mantle over head and shoulders. The tail aver- 

 ages about 75 mm., while that of chrysodeirus averages 90 nun. or mor< . 



Color (of type-specimen).— .Back and rump grizzed gray tinged with brownish; 

 sides paler; a dull fulvous mantle over head and neck, hardly reaching the shoulders; 

 color of head shading toward 1 trick -red; sides of neck In 'hind ears huffy ochracei »us; 

 a broad whitish stripe, bordered on each side by a broad black stripe, extends from 

 the shoulder to the rump on each side, and the white reaches beyond the black in 

 both directions; hind foot dull whitish; tail above, proximal half grizzled; distal 

 half black, edged with fulvous; tail below, chestnut, bordered with black and ed<_ r ed 



with fulvous. 



Number of specimens examined, 7; all from San Bernardino Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, VIII, 1893, p. 134.) 



