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each chipmunk usually seized a large piece in its 

 mouth and scampered off, returning as soon as we 

 withdrew. In fact they made themselves perfectly 

 at home in camp." 



The striped gopher and spermophile. A 

 variety of this species, the sage-chipmunk of 



TWO SPECIES OF ROCKY-MOUNTAIN CHIPMUNKS. 



From Warren's "Mammals of Colorado." By Permission of G. P. 



Putnam's Sons. Photo by H. W. Nash. 



the Great Basin, is the smallest and sprightliest 

 of the race. It lives mainly in the sage-brush, 

 scrambling about these diminutive bushes or 

 scampering from one to the other, and often 

 sitting on the top of a sage-bush eating the 

 little seeds from its hands; but, like other 



