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TaBLE CXXIX.—List of specimens examined of CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS—Continued. 
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500) | 2222s eee --.| Llano Estacado.-----=2|°- 22 oe Capt. John Pope. .-...| Dr. McKee ......... |..-.do. 
3486" 228 2-2 |2 eee ==,| ort.Defiance: Nh. Mex) | occ es onan lame neces eet eit ois :n’mem nie emia ee ..--do, 
trp ly (i) Pe ee Es ---| Pecos, N. Mex..-..... Apr. 24, 1856 | Capt. John Pope...-. Dr. McKee sacais 
1905 |..-.<. 225 | 2 | Republican Fork.-..... Oct. 16,1856 | Lieut. F. T. Bryan...| W.S. Wood .. Slaee Lily 
pee ce, | 1098|......|.-..| Presidio del Norte ....|.....-.....--.| Maj. W. H. Emory. .-.| J. H. Clark .| Skull. 
161 | 1144 | Limpeo Mts.,,\Tex:.... |.-:..-------- 5 go MOYac ten csaee= peat sere . Skin and skull. 
498 | 1635]...-.. === SSDeAMLOnIO; Mex? oo—-|samse=seeieeees Bes 0 eae = iene .---do ----do. 
339 | 1256|...... ..-.| New Mexico ..... a eee re Capt. A.W. Whipple | Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly ..-.do. 
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TD) | Eee ES ee -a\-| SNA oso aenu| Wee eens osne L. Sitgreaves..| Dr. S.W. Woodhouse. . .-.do. 
a 1160|......|....| Red River, Ark -.....- Dr. B. F. Shumard-...| Dr. B. F. Shumard-. | Skull. 
TOSU)| oe =| Seet aloo -| Fort Chadbourne, Tex. oa es SW bre ee ane | Dr. E. Swift Skin. 
CEU oes nee | ¢ | Fort Larned, Ind. Ter May 31, 1864! Dr. E. Coues...-...--. Dr. E. Coues.....-... |.---do. 
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CYNOMYS COLUMBIANUS (Ord) Allen. 
Western Barking Squirrel; Western “ Prairie Dog”. 
Arectomys columbianus ‘Orv, Guthrie’s Geog. 2d Am, ed. ii, 1815, 292, 302” (= “Burrowing Squirrel”, 
Lewis and Clarke).—ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvi, 1874, 294; Bull. Essex Inst. vi, 
1874, 57, 66 (Colorado).—CovurEs & Yarrow, Wheeler’s Expl. aaa Surv: W. of 100th Merid. 
v, Zod). 1875, 122 (Middle Utah). 
Anisonyx brachiura Rarixrsquk, Am. Month. Mag. ii, 1817, 45 (= “Burrowing Squirrel”, Lewis and 
Clarke).—DesMarxst, Mam. 1522, 329 (from Rafinesque). 
Arctomys brachyurus HARLAN, Fauna Amer. 1825, 304 (= “ Burrowing Squirrel”, Lewis and Clarke).— 
FISCHER, Synop. Mam. 1829, 345 (from Harlan).—RicHarpson, Zodl. Beechey’s Voy. 1839, 7 
(from the same).—WAaGNER, Suppl. Schreber’s Siiuget. iii, 1843, 261 (from the same).— 
ScuHinz, Syn. Mam. ii, 1845, 62 (from the same). 
Arctomys lewisi AUDUBON & BACHMAN, Quad. N. Am. iii, 1853, 32, pl. evii (from specimen in Mus. Zool. 
Soc. Lond. from “Columbia River”). See also Barrp, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 347. 
Cynomys gunnisoni Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 334; Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 335, pl. iv, fig. 2, 
animal; pl. xlvii, fig. 4, skull—Coves, Amer. Nat. i, 1857, 362; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 
1867, 135 (Ar‘zona).—STEVENSON, Hayden’s Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Wyom. 1871, 462. 
Burrowing Squirrel, Lewis & CLARKE, Travels, Ist Am. ed. ii, 1815, 173. 
Lewis's Marmot, AUDUBON & BACHMAN, 1. ¢. 
Short-tailed Prairie Dog, Barrp, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 335. 
SPECIFIC cHARS.—Length to base of tail about 10.25, ranging from 9.50 
to 11.50; of tail to end of vertebrae about 2.00 (1.70 to 2.25); to end of 
hairs 2.00 to 2.50. Above, dark yellowish-brown, sometimes inclining to red- 
dish, varied with black; beneath, yellowish-white, varying to pale yellowish- 
brown. Tail very short, flattened, generally wholly pure white (sometimes 
yellowish-white) for the terminal half, the basal portion being above like the 
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