Little Chipmunk 



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south of the Assiniboine and west of the Red River. It is 



plentiful at Wonoona, Manitoba; I did not find it north of 



Carberry or the immediate Valley of the Assiniboine, or beyond 



Fort ElUce. East of Winnipeg I noted it all along the Canadian 



Pacific Railway as far as Ingolf, where it is very abundant. 



Preble found it reported 



rather common at Oxford 



House, Keewatin, and saw 



one at Pine Lake in the 



same district.* Dr. Bell 



records- it from Nelson and 



Churchill Rivers, and G. S. 



Miller found it at Nepigon 



and Peninsula Harbour, 



Ontario.^ Thus we may 



look for this Chipmunk in 



all parts of our Province, 



and I am puzzled to aC- map i6— Distribution of the Little chipmunk in Manitoba. 

 /- . . . I The spots are actual records, but the whole Province is within its 



count tor its scarcity in the accredited ran^e. 



country just north of the Assiniboine. Probably the explana- 

 tion lies in faulty observation (Maps i6 and 17). 



This species selects the same surroundings as the large exvi- 

 Chipmunk. Possibly it is more of a ground animal, as I never ment 

 saw one up a tree. 



RANGE 



The home-range of the individual must be very small. «o^^/^ 

 I found a pair living in a little isolated thicket about twenty yards 

 in diameter. I can readily believe that, given food enough, they 

 would not leave this at any time. The case noted later of an 

 individual going a quarter of a mile in search of special food 

 was, I believe, very exceptional. Ordinarily this Chipmunk 

 will, like its larger cousin, pass its whole life in the narrow 

 bounds of one or two acres. 



' N. A. Fauna, 1902, No. 22, p. 45. 



*Rep. Prog. Can. Geol. Surv., 1882-3-4, App. II, p. 4SDD (1885). 



' N. A. Fauna, 1902, No. 22, p. 46. 



