MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 6 1 



Northern N.J. "Even the former existence of the fox squirrel in north- 

 ern N. J. rests on such unreliable evidence that I am unwilling to include it." 

 Rhoads, Proc. Acad. N. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 30. " I can get no informa- 

 tion of any having been taken lately in New Jersey." Bangs, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc., Washn., 1896, p. 150. 



Description and Habits. For the characters of this race see above under 

 S. rufiventer. So far as I have read there is nothing to distinguish the habits 

 and habitat of this species from those of the gray squirrel living in the same 

 regions. It is more terrestrial, less agile and perhaps more partial to swampy 

 ground than the gray squirrel and is much persecuted by the latter. 



Genus Tamias Illiger, Prodromus Systema Mammal, et Avium, i8n,p. 83. 



Southeastern Chipmunk; Striped or Ground Squirrel. Tamias 

 striatus (Linnaeus). 



1758. Sciurus striatus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, vol. i, p. 164. 



1857. Tamias striatus Baird, nth Smithsonian Report (Washington, D.C., 

 U.S.A.), p. 55. 



Type locality. Southeastern United States. 



Faunal distribution. Upper austral and lower transition zones ; Atlantic 

 Ocean to Indian Territory. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. jf. Found abundant in the Austral and Trans- 

 ition regions of both states except in southern, and more especially south- 

 eastern, N. J., where it is rarely met with, though not absent from any county- 

 As it nears the Transition areas it becomes exceedingly abundant and grad- 

 ually assumes a lighter color which, in the " boreal islands " of the Pa. moun- 

 tain tops, merits classification with T. s. fysteri, the form next to be considered. 

 For further discussion of habits, economic status and specific characters the 

 reader is referred to subspecies fysteri. 



Northeastern Chipmunk. Tamias striatus fysteri (Richardson). 



1829. Sciurus (Tamias) fysteri Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, 

 vol. i, p. 182. 



1886. Tamias striatus fysteri, Merriam, American Naturalist, vol. 20, 

 p. 242. 



Type locality. Penetanguishene, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. 



Faunal distribution. Upper Transition and Lower Canadian zones ; Maine 

 to Lake Superior. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. See under striatus, above. Not found 

 in N. J. 



Records in Pa. Specimens most nearly approaching typical fysteri in my 



