RED SQUIRREL, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 



(Shakalatieyik) 



Range. — Most of forested North America, south 

 in mountains to South Carolina and nearlj- to Mex- 

 ican border. 



Habitat. — Principally in coniferous forests. 



Races in Alaska. — The common form through- 

 out most of Alaska is the subspecies prebUi; on 

 the Kenai Peninsula occurs kenaiensk (type local- 

 ity: Hope, Cook Inlet) ; fetulmis (type locality: 

 Glacier, White Pass) occupies the Chilkat Valley 

 and Glacier Bay region of southern Alaska; pica- 

 tus (type locality: Kupreanof Island) occurs near 

 the Lynn Canal and on Kulu Island, and generally 

 throughout southeastern Alaska on tlie mainland 

 and nearby islands. 



Related specks. — The least chipmunk, Eiitnmla.'t 

 mlrumiis caniceps, has not yet been recorded from 

 Alaska, but there are records from the neighbor- 

 hood of Skagway at Bennett, British Columbia, 

 and in tlie vicinity of Dalton Post and Kluane, 

 Yukon. 



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