FIELD BOOK OF MAMMALS 



Summer. — Back dark olive-brown tinged with reddish; an 

 intensely black lateral line; underparts and feet orange. 

 Total length, 12.6 inches; tail vertebrae, 5 inches; hind foot, 

 2 inches. Found in "The immediate vicinity of the Pacific 

 coast in Oregon and Washington, from about Cape Blanco 

 to Juan de Fuca Strait." (Allen) Plate XX V^ 



Redwood Chickaree. — Sciurus douglasii mollipilosus (Audu- 

 bon and Bachman). 

 Resembling typical douglasii but in winter less dark above 

 and sides grayer ; tail fringed with whitish instead of yellow- 

 ish; underparts generally paler; in summer more olivaceous 

 above and less rusty red, underparts paler and tail fringed 

 with white. Total length, 12.6 inches; tail vertebrae, 5.4 

 inches; hind foot, 2 inches. Found in "Pacific coast region 

 of northern California, west of the Coast Range, from 

 Sonoma County (Petaluma) north into Curry County (Port 

 Orford), Oregon." (Allen) 



Cascades Chickaree. — Sciurus douglasii cascadensis Allen. 

 Very similar to mollipilosus, having white-fringed tail; prac- 

 tically indistinguishable from it in winter pelage ; in summer 

 more olivaceous above and less deeply orange below. Total 

 length, 13 inches; tail vertebrae, 5.4 inches; hind foot, 2 

 inches. Found in "The Cascades region of Oregon and 

 Washington, north into British Columbia, including also the 

 coast region at the mouth of the Fraser River, and north at 

 least to Rivers Inlet (about 51° 30'), some fifty miles north 

 of Vancouver Island. In Oregon this form prevails south 

 in the Cascades to the vicinity of Fort Klamath; and, west 

 of the Cascades, to Glendale, Cleveland, Eugene, and Sweet 

 Home, and in Washington, to Tenino, Roy, and Snoqual- 

 mie Falls." ^ (Allen) 



California Chickaree.^ — Sciurus douglasii alholimhatus Allen. 

 Similar to cascadensis; in winter slightly. paler above, under- 

 parts grayish white without wash of fulvous, and very little 

 sprinkling of black; in summer, almost indistinguishable 

 from cascadensis, but slightly grayer; underparts pale ful- 

 vous; feet and outer sides of limbs orange; tail fringed with 

 pure white. Total length, 13.2 inches; tail vertebrae, 5.5 

 inches; hind foot, 2. i inches. Found in "The Sierra Nevada 

 region of central and northern California, north in Oregon, 

 east of the Cascades, to the Maury Mountains and Straw- 

 berry Butte, over which region it prevails with little change 

 and may be considered typical, and nearly typical alho- 

 limbatus prevails westward in Oregon to the eastern base of 

 the Cascades, where it passes into cascadensis.'' (Allen) 



Fremonti Group 



Characterized by underparts always white and tail fringed 

 with white; found in southern Rocky Mountain states. 



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