in the British Museum. 435 
b. The pale streaks narrow, linear, well-defined. Smaller. 
Tamias quadrivittatus. 
Sciurus quadrivittatus, Say, in Long’s Exped. 1823, ii. 45; Richardson, 
F. B. A. t. 16. 
Tamias minimus, Bachmann. 
Fur pale ash-grey, sides reddish ; underside of the tail reddish 
yellow, black and grey on the sides. 
Hab. West coast of North America (Lord): B.M. California, 
Scott Mountains (Brydges): B.M. 
Tamias Hindsit. 
ae peas Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, x. 264; Zool. Sulph. 
t. Id. f. 1. 
? T. Cooperi, Baird, Proc. Acad. N.S. Philad. 1855, vii. 334. 
T. Townsendii, var., Baird, M. N. A. 300. 
Fur dark ash-grey, reddish on the sides; the pale and dark 
streaks elongate, well marked ; the underside of the tail orange- 
red in the middle, blackish on the sides. 
Hab. California (Hinds), B.M.; Vancouver Island (Lord), 
Cascade Ranges (Lord), and British Columbia, Sunago Range 
(Lord), B.M. 
Tamias Townsendit. 
Tamias Townsendii, Bachmann, J. A. N.S. Philad. 1839, viii. 68; Baird, 
M. N. A. 300. 
Fur dark mouse-coloured, minutely punctulated with white ; 
the four pale streaks grizzled grey and white, indistinctly de- 
fined, broad, short ; three of the black streaks short ; the lateral 
dark streak brown, very short, and indistinctly marked ; hinder 
part of the base of the ears grizzled: tail blackish-grey grizzled ; 
underside orange, with black edges. 
Hab. California. B.M. 
_ Larger than 7. Hindsii, with the grey dorsal streak indistinctly 
marked, grizzled like the back. 
Tamias quadrimaculatus. 
T. Townsendii, Gruber. 
Fur dark grizzled ; shoulders and sides reddish; the pale 
dorsal streaks broad, indistinctly marked, grizzled; outer one 
narrow and more marked; the dark streaks broad, short, the 
outer ones scarcely defined; neck with a large white spot on 
each side of the nape, behind the ear, and with a large black 
spot beneath it at the end of the very distinct dark under face- 
streak ; tail black, white-washed, beneath orange, blackish-edged. 
Young like adult, but dark streaks more marked. Same size as 
T. Hindsii. 
Hab. California, Michigan Bluff (Gruber). B.M. 
