in the British Museum. 435 



b. The pale streaks narroio, linear, well-defined. Smaller, 



Tainias quadrivittatiis. 



Sciurus quadrivittatus, Say, ia Long's Exped. 1823, ii. 45; Richardson, 



F. B.A. t. 16. 

 Tamias minimus, Bachmann. 



Fur pale ash-grey, sides reddish ; underside of the tail reddish 

 yellow, black and grey on the sides. 



Hab. West coast of North America (Lord) : B.M. California, 

 Scott Mountains (Brydges) : B.M. 



Tamias Hindsii. 



Tamias Hindsii, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, x. 264 ; Zool. Sulpli. 



t. 13. f. 1. 

 ? T. Cooperi, Baird, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. 1855, vii. 3.34. 

 T. Townsendii, var., Baird, M. N. A. 300. 



Fur dark ash-grey, reddish on the sides ; the pale and dark 

 streaks elongate, well marked ; the underside of the tail orange- 

 red in the middle, blackish on the sides. 



Hab. California (Hinds), B.M. ; Vancouver Island (Lord), 

 Cascade Ranges (Lord), and British Columbia, Sunago Range 

 (Lord), B.M. 



Tamias Townsendii. 



Tamias Townsendii, Bachmann, J. A. N. S. Philad. 183.9, viii. 68; Baird, 

 M. N. A. 300. 



Fur dark mouse-coloured, minutely punctulated with white ; 

 the four pale streaks grizzled grey and white, indistinctly de- 

 fined, broad, short ; three of the black streaks short ; the lateral 

 dark streak brown, very short, and indistinctly marked ; hinder 

 part of the base of the ears grizzled : tail blackish- grey grizzled ; 

 underside orange, with black edges. 



Hab. California. B.M. 



Larger than T. Hindsii, with the grey dorsal streak indistinctly 

 marked, grizzled like the back. 



Tamias quadrimaculatus. 

 T. Townsendii, Gruber. 



Fur dark grizzled ; shoulders and sides reddish ; the pale 

 dorsal streaks broad, indistinctly marked, grizzled ; outer one 

 narrow and more marked ; the dark streaks broad, short, the 

 outer ones scarcely defined ; neck with a large white spot on 

 each side of the nape, behind the ear, and with a large black 

 spot beneath it at the end of the very distinct dark under face- 

 streak ; tail black, white- washed, beneath orange, blackish-edged. 

 Young like adult, but dark streaks more marked. Same size as 

 T, Hindsiim 



Hab. California, Michigan Bluff (Gruber). B.M. 



