XIII. 



striped Ground-squirrel, Striped-gopher, Thirteen- 



striped Spermophile or Citellus, Hood 



Spermophile or Leopard Spermophile. 



Citellus tridecemlineatus (Mitchill). 



(L. Citellus, see ante; L. tridecemlineatus, from tredecim, thirteen, lineatus, lines or stripes.) 



Sciurus tridecemlineatus MiTCHiLL, 1821, Med. Repos., N. S., 



VI (XXI), p. 248. 

 Citellus tredecimlineatus Elliott, 1905, Check List Mam., 



N. A. Field Mus. Pub. 105, Zool. Series VI, p. 104. 

 Type Locality. — Central Minnesota. 



French Canadian, la Citelle ou VE'cureuil a treize 



rates. 

 OjiB. AND Saut., Sha-sha'-ha Wa-ha-coosh' . 

 Yankton Sioux, Tah-sen-a A-das-ka, 

 Ogallala Sioux, Tash-nah-hay'-ah-lah. 



In addition to the generic characters given on page 372, 

 the Striped Spermophile has the following: 



SIZE Length, about 11 inches (279 mm.); tail, 3I inches (89 



mm.); hind-foot, if inches (35 mm.); ears, very small and 

 low. Female smaller. 



COLOUR AH above, dark or blackish brown (which varies greatly 



in depth), with 7 long stripes of dull yellowish white, between 

 which are 6 more or less broken rows of spots, similar in colour 

 to the stripes; the stripes are much broken up on crown and 

 haunches; there are traces of chestnut on the flanks and in the 



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