TAMIAS, 137 
mixed with yellowish chestnut; outermost ones yellowish chestnut 
mixed with blackish; median hght stripes gray, outer ones grayish 
white; facial stripes white and black, bordered with rusty; ears on 
center at base black, edge margined with rusty and tipped with 
white; large white patch at base of ear; under parts and upper sur 
face of hands and feet grayish white; tail above black mixed with 
buff, and hairs white-tipped, beneath ochraceous, bordered with 
black and fringed with white. 
Measurements. Total length, 250; tail vertebra, 98; hind foot, 
33. Skull: average total length, 36.6; greatest breadth, 23, 
100. durange (/¢utamias), Allen, Bull, Am, Mus, Nat, Hist., 1903, 
Pp. 595. 
DURANGO CHIPMUNK. 
Type locality. Arroyo de Buey, State of Durango, Mexico, 
Genl, Char. Similar to 7. bullera but larger and paler. 
Color, ‘Similar to /¢, (7) bullert from southwestern Zacatecas, but 
larger and paler, with the white markings on the head broader, and 
the white post-auricular patch larger; rump, basal portion of the 
tail, and flanks faintly suffused with a very pale tinge of buff instead 
of being gray as in bulleri; the dark dorsal stripes are similar in 
extent and in color, but the intervening light stripes are suffused 
with pale cinnamon instead of being nearly clear white as in biullert, 
and the rufous of the flanks is much paler. (Allen, |. c.) 
Measurements, ‘Total length, 238; tail vertebra, 98; hind foot, 
32; ear from notch, rg. Skull: total length, 39; zygomatic width, ar, 
101. merriami (7amias), Allen, Bull, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890 
p. 84. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 71. 
asiaticus merriamt Allen, Bull. Am, Mus. Nat, Hist., 1889, p. 176. 
Merriam's CHipMUNK., 
Type locality, San Bernardino Mountains, California, 
Geogr. Distr, From Tulare and Monterey Counties, California, 
’ 
south in the mountains into Lower California, Mexico, 
Genl, Char. Size large; color pale; facial and dorsal marking not 
strongly contrasted; ears high, pointed. 
Color, Above dull yellowish gray mixed in places with fulvous; 
dorsal stripes pale yellowish to fulvous brown, the light ones pale 
gray; sides and rump pale olivaceous; tail above blackish, fringed 
with» gray, beneath reddish chestnut, bordered with black and 
fringed with whitish, 
Post-breeding Pelage. Wlanks golden rufous; dark dorsal stripes 
yellowish rufous light ones silver gray; tail beneath orange chestnut, 
above orange yellow. 
