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smd several were killed near oui' camps b^^ eating- poisoned meat laid 

 for wolves and large game. In tlu' logging camps around Flagstati' 

 and along the then new Mineral Belt Railroad they occasioned nuich 

 inconvenience b}" their persistent pilfering of grain and food stores. 

 At Fern Spring, near Bakers Butte, in the Mogollon Range east of 

 Fort Verde the young were running about b}' the middle of July. 

 There they became partieularl}" bold and troublesome, carrying off 

 everything eatable that they could iind in our summer camp. It was 

 next to impossible to preserve our horses' forage. When once they 

 gained access to a sack of grain, they made bold to carry it oti' into 

 their underground storehouses before our eyes. The}' openlv fre- 

 quented our cook tents, abstracting therefrom whatever they wanted 

 and could carry. They nibliled at our bacon and salt pork and 

 approached our mess table at meal times entreating to be fed. Though 

 an awkward load, one could manage to carry away a large camp bis- 

 cuit, an anuising performance. Among them was an albino and sev- 

 eral more or less albinistic individuals. Many were trapped, but they 

 were so abundant that there was no perceptible diminution of their 

 numbers. The soldiers carried a number of them to Fort Verde (alti- 

 tude onl}^ 3,300 feet) as pets; some escaped and took up their abode 

 beneath the quarters, where they thrived, increased, and ])ecame a 

 nuisance. 



CALLOSPERMOPHILUS BERNARDINUS (Merrriam). 

 SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAIN GROUND-SQUIRREL. 



Spermophilus chrysodeiriis lirrricdiidtia Mekkia.m, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasliington, 



VIII, p. 134, Dec. 28, 1893. (Not of Brandt, 1844.) 

 Spermopliilus {CaUospermop}iila.i) heniardinus Merriam, Science, New 8er., VIII, 



p. 782, Dec. 2, 1898. 

 Spermophilus beruardinus, Miller and Reux, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., XXX, No. 1, 



Dec. 27, 1901, p. 47 (Syst. Results Study N. Am. Mam. to close of 1900). 

 \_SpermopliUni< cJiriimdeirus] bernardimis, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., 11, 



1901, p. 84 (Synop. Mam. N. Am.). 



The following is the original description: 



Type from San Bernardino Peak, California. No. 56661, fcmaif adult, V. S. 

 National Museum, Department of Agriculture collection. Collected ( )ct(>l)cr 9, 1S9:'>, 

 l)y J. K. McLcilan (original number, 274). 



Ci'iieral characters. — Similar to *S'. chrrjsodeirus, hut with much shorter tail, some- 

 what shorter hind foot, and duller mantle over head and shoulders. The tail aver- 

 ages about 75 nnii., while that of chri/sodeirus averages 90 mm. or more. 



Color (of type-specimen). — Back and rump grizzed gray tinged with brownish; 

 sides paler; a dull fulvous mantle over head and neck, hardly reaching the shoulders; 

 color of head shading toward brick-red; sides of neck behind ears huffy ochraceous; 

 a broad whitish stripe, bordered on each side by a broad black stripe, extends from 

 the shoulder to the rump on each side, and the white reaches beyond the black in 

 both directions; hind foot dull whitish; tail above, proximal half grizzled; distal 

 half black, edged with fulvous; tail below, chestnut, bordered with hhu-k and edged 

 with fulvous. 



Number of specimens examined, 7; all from San Bernardino Mountains, C'ali- 

 fornia. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, VIII, 1>S93, p. 134.) 



