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tail, 1.0; lower incisors,0.30; claw of thumb,0.10; cheek pouches, 
1.50 deep from incisor. The prevailing color is pale lemon 
yellow with almost a greenish tinge, this is everywhere warmed 
with suffusions of rusty orange so that at a distance the ground 
color might be called rusty yellow; about the lips, throat and 
eyes the color is nearly white; the upper part of the head is 
enlivened with bright orange anteriorly and chestnut with an 
admixture of dark brown posteriorly; the back is marked with 
about nine broad stripes of very dark brown locally suffused 
with chestnut, one of these stripes passing down the middle of 
the back beginning upon the occiput and fusing into the brighter 
colors on the upper surface of the tail; anteriorly this stripe is 
divided by a narrow band of the general body color,but back of 
the shoulders this breaks up into rather regular blotches oc- 
cupying the middle of the dark band; the two dark bands on 
either side of the central one also contain rows of light spots, 
while the remainder of the dark bands are narrower and un- 
spotted. The appearance thus produced is that of a dark 
dorsal surface broken by alternating continuous narrow, light- 
colored lines and rows of spots. The outer side of the hind 
legs is brindled and at the ankle there is a considerable suffu- 
sion of rufous. The tail is orange or chestnut with a bar of 
_ white near the end of the hairs, the longest of which are white 
tipped. The tail is scantily hairy and the hairs are dichotom- 
ously arranged. The posterior part of the sole is hairy. The 
vibrisse are black and the longest reach to the ear. The ears 
are covered without and within with close fur. The muffle is 
very small. There is a pale depauperate variety (pallidus 
Allen) occupying the prairies of Colorado, Wyoming, and parts 
of Missouri and Arkansas. The species ranges from the 
Saskatchawan region to Texas and from Ohio to Utah. Minne- 
sota is thus the peculiar home of the typical form and thus 
deserves the name ‘‘Gopher State.” 
Spermophilus franklini (SaBrinE) Lesson. 
GRAY GOPHER. 
Length, 9.50-10.50; tail to end of vertebrae, 5.50-6.50; to end 
of hairs, 6.50-8.50; nose to eye, 0.95; hind foot, 2.00. 
General color brownish yellow above, pied everywhere by 
the black of the base of the hairs, which shows in wavy lines 
_ so as to produce almost a marbled appearance. The yellowish 

