IX. 



Common Chipmunk, Big or Eastern Chipmunk, Chip- 

 ping Squirrel, Striped Ground-squirrel or Hackee. 



Tamias striatus griseus Mearns. 



(Gr. Tamias, a steward, one who stores and looks after provisions; L. striatus, striped; 



L. gnseus, gray.) 



Sciurus striatus LiNN, 1 758, Syst. Nat., X ed. i, p. 64. 



Tamias striatus Baird, 1857, llth Smiths. Rep., p. 55. 



Type Locality. — South-eastern United States. 



Tamias striatus griseus Mearns, 1 89 1, Bull. Am. Mus. N. 

 Hist., HI, p. 231. 



Type Locality. — Fort Snelling, Minn. 



French Canadian, le Suisse. 

 Cree and Ojib., a h-gwin-gwis\ 

 Saut. and Muskego, Ah-ging-goos\ 

 Yankton Sioux, Ah-tah-chah. 

 Ogallala Sioux, Hayt-kah'-lah. 



The genus Tamias (Illiger, 181 1) comprises small Squir- 

 rels, living on the ground; they have well-developed cheek 

 pouches, and along the back a series of black stripes on 

 brown or gray ground. 



The teeth are : 



Inc. ; prem. ; mol. - — = 20 



I -I I -I ^-1, 



In addition to these generic characters the Common or 

 Eastern Chipmunk of Manitoba has the following: 



Length, about 9^ inches (241 mm.); tail, 3^ inches (82 size 

 mm.); hind-foot, if inches (35 mm.). 



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