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Santa Rosa Peak, Tahquitz Valley, and the road between Schain's 

 Ranch and Fuller's Mill. It was not an abundant species at any 

 point, two <»r three individuals being about as many as were seen 

 anywhere in the course of a day's collecting. 



The six specimens preserved, all adults, taken on dates rang- 

 ing from June 5 to August 17. are in extremely worn ami ragged 

 pelage, some of them showing the beginning of the growth of new- 

 hair on the head, and at points on the hack. 



Eutamias merriami merriami (Allen) 

 Merriam Chipmunk 



A common species on the coastal slope of the mountains, 

 mostly in high Upper Sonoran and lower Transition, ranging 

 upward in smaller numbers to upper Transition. Specimens 

 were collected ;is follows: Poppel Plat, 4f>im feet, two nos. 1645, 

 1668); Schain's Ranch, 4900 feet, six mis. 1643, Kill. 1646, 

 Ki47. 1669, 1670); Puller's Mill, 6000 feet, ten nos. 1745-1754); 

 Strawberry Valley, 6000 feet, six nos. 2091 2096 ; Tahquitz 

 Valley. 8000 feet, two nos. 2156, 2157); Round Valley, 9000 

 feet, two (nos. 1755, 1756); Hemel Lake, lloo feet, two (nos. 

 2238, 2239) ; Kenworthy, 4500 feet, nine (nos. 187-3 1881 i ; Car- 

 net Queen Mine. 6000 feet, one (no. 1997); Santa Rosa Peak, 



7500 feet, tin- .nos. 1994 1996 : Toro Peak, 8000 feet, three 



(nos. 1991-1993); forty six m all. Also observed on Thomas 

 Mountain, 6800 feet, hut none collected there. One was heard 

 calling in the brush of the foothills near Banning at the north 

 base of the mountains, the lowest point where the species was 

 noted. 



The species was everywhere an inhabitant of the chaparral. 

 Though common on the brush-covered hills surrounding Hemel 

 Valley, as at Kenworthy and Hemel Lake, individuals were 

 never seen in the clumps of timber scattered in the sagebrush of 

 the valley just below. In Tahquitz Valley, and on some of the 

 surrounding ridges, they frequented tracts of chinquapin and 

 young tii' trees. 



Round Valley. 9000 feet, is an unusually high record station 



for the species, hut tracts of brush such as were occupied com- 



