SCIURIDH—TAMIAS STRIATUS. 787 
to the American animal under americanus. In 1820, Kuhl described an 
American specimen contained in Bullock’s Museum as Tamias americana, 
stating that it differed from the Sctwrus striatus of Pallas preserved in the 
Berlin Museum. He, however, makes no other reference to previous authors, 
and does not inform us whether he considered his ‘‘ 7. americana” to be a 
previously unknown species, or whether he intended merely to separate the 
American from the Siberian animal; but that he regarded it as a species previ- 
ously unnoticed is the natural and usual inference. Fischer, in 1829, follow- 
ing Gmelin, makes the American animal a variety of the Asiatic, for which 
he adopts the name americanus (Sciurus striatus (Linn.) var. americanus), 
and says of its distribution :—* Communis in America septentr. nec non in 
Asia boreali.” He quotes Linnzeus’s original diagnosis (“ pallidus, striis 4 
fuscis”, etc.) in Mus. Ad. Frid., and cites Catesby, Lawson, Brickell, and Du 
Pratz. Fischer also gives as an additional species the ‘“‘ Tamias americana’ 
of Kuhl. In the same year (1829), Richardson applied the name /ysteri to 
the American animal, wrongly crediting the name to Klein, as had Desmarest 
before him. This name is based on Ray’s “‘Sciurus a Cla. D. Lyster obser- 
vatus”, etc. The earliest use of the name Sciwrus lysteri was doubtless made 
by Pallas in 1778, who cites ““Scéurus Listeri Rag. Syn. p. 216”. Desmarest, 
in 1822, in his synonymy of Scturus striatus, also cites “Scturus Lysteri, 
Rai, Syn. quad. pag. 216”. The name /ysteri was subsequently adopted for 
. the American species by Waguer, Schinz, Audubon and Bachman, Giebel, 
Gray, and others, and almost uniformly accredited to Ray; while the name 
striatus was applied by the same writers exclusively to the Asiatic animal. 
Professor Baird, in 1857, claimed the name striatus for the Ground 
Squirrel of Eastern North America, on the ground (as fully set forth in the 
preceding remarks) that the name was originally applied exclusively to 
American specimens. Finding, as he believed, the Asiatic species thus left 
without a name, he called it “ Tamias pailasii, after the eminent naturalist 
who was the first to give an account of it to the world”.* The name striatus 
has since been currently adopted among American writers for the Striped 
or Ground Squirrel of Eastern North America, while Dr. Gray adopts for it 
Kuhl’s name americana, and retains striatus for the Asiatic form. The use 
of striatus by Linneeus, in his tenth edition of the Systema Nature, strictly 
and solely for the American species, is sufficient to fully establish it as 
“Mam. N. Amer. p. 295. 
