84 CALIFORNIA MAMMALS. 



Type locality, near San Francisco. California. 

 , The northern part of the range of the Hinds Chipmunk lies 

 east of and joining that of the Redwood Chipmunk from eastern 

 Humboldt County southward, and reaches the coast a little north 

 of San Francisco. They prefer localities where mixed timber is 

 interspersed with brush and patches of open grass land. The 

 breeding season commences early, the latter part of March, 

 the greater number being born in April. The young number 

 from three to five. 



Eutamias hindsi pricei Allen. (For W. W. Price.) 



PRICE CHIPMUNK. 



Winter pelage, similar to hindsi but tinged more with rusty 

 and pelage more grizzled with white; apparently averaging 

 larger. I have not seen the summer pelage. 



Type locality, Portola, San Mateo County. California. 



Price Chipmunks occur through the Santa Cruz Mountains 

 and probably in the mountains of Monterey County also. 



Eutamias merriami Allen. (For Dr. C. Hart Merriam.) 



MERRIAM CHIPMUNK. 



Most like hindsi but grayer. Light face stripes dull wliite, 

 sometimes slightly tinged with ochraceous in summer; stripe on 

 back part of ear gray, indistinct ; spot behind the ear grayish 

 white in summer, ashy gray in winter; dark stripes of back in 

 winter dull brownish black, the middle stripe darkest and the out- 

 ermost pair almost obsolete; ground color of upper surface and 

 sides hair brown grizzled with whitish, particularly on the in- 

 nermost pair of light stripes ; sides tinged with raw umber ; outer 

 pair of light stripes, dull grayish white; belly grayish white some- 

 times tinged with buff; stripe on under side of tail cinnamon ruf- 

 ous, rather broadly bordered with black and edged with yellowish 

 white. In Slimmer pelage the sides are heavily tinged with russet or 



