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fulvous and the dark stripes of back more or less ting-ed with the 

 same color; outer pair of light stripes whiter. 



Length about 250 mm. (9.85 inches) ; tail vertebr?e 120 

 (4.70) ; hind foot 36 (1.42) ; ear from crown 16 (.63). 



Type locality, San Bernardino Mountains, California. 



The Merriam Chipmunk is common in the San Bernardino 

 and San Jacinto Mountains, in the higher parts of the mountains 

 of San Diego County and on the lower western slope of the 

 southern Sierra Nevada. They do not extend very far below the 

 belt of coniferous trees, and are usually found in brush, rareK 

 climbing trees. Four or five young are born in the last half 

 of May or in June. 



Eutamias townsendi ochrogenys Merriam. (For J. K. 

 Townsend; pale yellow — chin.) 



REDWOOD CHIPMUNK. 



Large and very dark colored. Light face stripes pale 

 ochraceous, increasing in intensity as the season advances; back 

 part of ear and light spot behind the ear bluish white, distinct; 

 middle back stripe black, the next dark pair rusty black, outer 

 pair narrow and indistinct; inner pair of light stripes sepia 

 or bistre grizzled with white, outer pair pale olive gray; top of 

 head and rump grizzled dark sepia ; sides bistre or wood brown ; 

 lower parts ochraceous white; tail long and narrow, blackish 

 above, the sfripe beneath chestnut broadly bordered with black 

 and edged with grayish white. Summer pelage; strongly tinged 

 with fulvous. 



Length about 260 mm. (10.25 inches); tail vertebrae 117 

 ( [.60) ; hind foot 37 ( 1.45) ; ear from crown 16 (.63). 



Type locality, Mendocino, California. 



Redwood Chipmunks are more or less common in the red- 

 wood forests in a narrow belt a few miles wide along the coast 

 of northern California from Sonoma County to Oregon. They 

 frequent the thick forest, seldom coming out in the open places. 



