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There is another ground squirrel, smaller than the red, and more 

 brownish in color, and lives high upon the mountains, chiefly beyond 

 the tree limit. It has a peculiar call, more like a whistle than a chat- 

 ter. In British Columbia there are three kinds of squirrels not found 

 east of the Rockies. One has the head broader than the red squirrel 

 with ears very round and with tufts on them; the color brownish, the 

 whiskers quite black, as well as the tips of the tail. The other is 

 smaller and has the tip of the tail black. I have only seen it close to 

 the mountains. A third is a large ground squirrel, with a tail some- 

 what resembling that of a flying-squirrel, which may be a spermophile. 



NORTHERN CHIPMUNK. 



Eutamias quarlririttatas horealis (Allen). 



Specimens of this chipmunk were collected at Salt River (an afliuent 

 of the Slave River below Fort Smith, Athabasca District), Forts Reso- 

 lution and Rae, Great Slave Lake, Fort Liard, and one also by the 

 writer, labelled '* Mackenzie River," which was prol)abl3' secured 

 between Fort Good Hope and Fort Simpson. 1 never saw any in 

 the Anderson region. Mr. Ross" gives its range as extending to Fort 

 Good Hope; and that these animals were very destructive to such 

 garden produce as was raised at Fort Resolution. Dr. Frank Russell 

 secured two examples at Grand Rapids near the outlet of the Sas- 

 katchewan River into Lake ^Vinni}>eg. 



CHIPMUNK. 



Callospermophilus sp. 



Mr. Drummond obtained examples of this species in the Rocky 

 Mountains some seventy or more years ago, in about latitude 57" 

 north. I can not say that I ever saw a specimen, neither did Mr. 

 Preble on his recent collecting expeditions to Hudson Bay meet with 

 or hear aught of this chipmunk. 



PARRY'S SPERMOPHILE. 



Citellus jiarnji (Richardson). 



Abundant in the Barren Grounds, on the Arctic coast, and in the 

 vicinity of many of the rivers and lakes of the North Country. In 

 the earh' sixties of the hist century, numerous specimens were obtained 

 from Fort Anderson, the Barren Grounds, Liverpool and Franklin 

 ))a\'s, from the Yukon, and from the Mackenzie River. Thev breed 

 once a year and have several young at a birth. They live in burrows, 

 as described by Mr. Preble, who secured specimens from a point 150 

 miles north of Fort Churchill. Doctor Russell also obtained three 

 examples at Herschel Island, situated to the west of the outlet of the 

 Mackenzie River. 



« IManuscript notes in the Siiiitlisunian Institution. 



