SCIURIDAS—TAMIAS STRIATUS. 783 
Sciurus (Tomias) striatus Hari, Canad. Nat. and Geol. 1861, 280.—Apams, Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, 
100 (New Brunswick). 
Sciurus carolinensis Brisson, Quad. 1756, 135. 
Sciurus (Tamias) lysteri RICHARDSON, Faun. Bor.-Amer. i, 1829, 181, pl. xv.—DovGury’s Cab. Nat. Hist. i, 
1850, 169, pl. xv. 
Tamias lysteri WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber’s Siinget. iii, 1843, 252, pls. cexiv, ecxix.—Scurnz, Synop. Mam. 
ii, 1845, 47. AUDUBON & BacnMan, Quad. N. Amer. i, 1849, 65, pl. viii —GmeBEL, Siiuget. 1855, 
639.—MaxXIMILiANn, Archiv f. Naturgesch. 1861, 79. 
Ground Squirrel, Lawson, Nat. Hist. Carol. 1718, 124.—BrickELi, North Carol. 1737, 129.—CaTEsBy, 
Carol. ii, 1743, 75, pl. Ixxv.—Epwarbs, Birds, iii, 1751, 181, pl. elxxxi—PENNANT, Synop. 
Quad. 1771, 288 (in part).—Ka_M, Travels (Forster’s transl.), i, 1770, 322, pl. i. 
Beureuil Suisse, SAGARD-THEODAT, Hist. du Canada, 1636, v, 746.—Drnys, Descrip. de ’Amér. Sept. ii, 
1672, 331.—La Hontan, Voy. dans l’Amér. ii, 1709, 43. , 
Le Suisse, CHARLEVOIX, Journ. Wun Voy. dans l’Amér. Sept. v, 1744, 198.—Du PRratz, Hist. Louis. ii, 1758, 
98.—BuFFON, Hist. Nat. x, 1763, 126, pl. xxviii. 
Erdeichhorn and Késselwisslar, KaLM, Reisen (German edit.), ii, 1757, 462. 
American Ground Squirrel, G1LP1N, Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. Sci. ii, pt. 3, 1870, 15. 
Striped Squirrel, Chipping Squirrel, Ground Squirrel, Chipmunk, Le Suisse, Hackee, VULGO. 
Speciric cHars.— Length (head and body) 5.75; tail to end of verte- 
bre 3.65; to end of hairs 4.25. Middle of the dorsal region gray, passing into 
rufous posteriorly, with five longitudinal narrow stripes of black, the two outer 
on either side separated by a line of white; sides washed with yellowish; 
head above brownish; whole lower surface of the body white; tail blackish 
above, edged with white, centrally below yellowish-rufous, bordered with black 
and edged with white. A light superciliary line extends from the nose nearly 
to the ear, which immediately above the eye is nearly pure white; a less 
distinct light line below the eye, which on the lower eyelid is nearly white ; 
below this a faint stripe of reddish-brown, and another somewhat darker 
behind the eye. Nose whitish; feet like the sides of the body. 
The color varies somewhat in different specimens from the same locality, 
especiaily in respect to the brightness of the yellowish wash on the sides: of 
the bedy, and of the rufous of the posterior portion of the back, and also in 
the color and size of the dorsal stripes. The light stripes are generally yel- 
lowish- or creamy-white, but are sometimes nearly pure white. The black 
stripes are generally distinctly bordered with dark rufous or chestnut, and 
vary in respect to’ width and longitudinal extension. The middle one begins 
at the occiput as a narrow, often indistinct line of dark rufous, generally 
mixed more or less with black. At the shoulders, it expands, and passes 
thence posteriorly as a narrow black stripe bordered with rufous to within 
a short distance of the base of the tail. The two lateral black stripes are 
rather broader, but much shorter than the middle one, extending only from 
the posterior edge of the shoulder to the hip. The outer on either side is 
