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would be expected, still more widely from buxtoni than does 

 its nearest geographical neighbor, barrowensis. 



C. buxtoni has only a remote relationship to C. eversmannii 

 (Brandt) from the Altai Mountains, the latter being very much 

 smaller, with relatively longer tail, and very different colora- 

 tion, wholly lacking the rufous head-patch so characteristic 

 of C. buxtoni and the whole parry i group. 



"Russian local name, Ov-rdhs-ka. Abundant in suitable 

 places at the mouth of the Anadyr River, Marcova, Pengina, 

 Gichiga, Ola, Okhotsk, and Ayan. Mr. Jochelson says that 

 it is also abundant in the Kolyma country, where they are 

 sometimes eaten by the natives when other food is scarce. 

 At Gichiga larger or smaller colonies of them are scattered all 

 along the river banks and along the high bluffs which overlook 

 the sea. On the right bank of the Gichiga River, about five 

 miles above its mouth, is a wide sandy bottom, a few feet 

 above the river, which in the summer is covered with a thick 

 growth of grass and flowers. This bottom for nearly a mile 

 along the river and two hundred yards inland is covered with 

 spermophiles' burrows, and the colony contains three or four 

 hundred individuals. During summer their runways radiate 

 from these burrows in all directions and cross one another in 

 the tall grass. At this time' one can see them sitting erect at 

 their holes and running through the grass, and hear them 

 utter their sharp shick-shick of alarm. They begin to come 

 out of their winter quarters as soon as the snow begins to 

 leave, about the second week in May, and return during the 

 last week in September. The young are born about the time 

 they emerge from hibernation. Their food consists of green 

 grass and plants and their seeds, which they store, at least in 

 limited quantities." N. G. B. 



10. Citellus stejnegeri, sp. nov. 

 KAMCHATKA SPERMOPHILE. 



Spermophilus brunniceps KITTLITZ, Denkwurdigkeiten einr Reise, 

 etc., II, 1858, 337. Nomen nudum. Southern Kamchatka. 



Spermophilus parryi BRANDT (nee Richardson) , Bull. phys. math. Cl. 

 Acad. Sci. St. P6tersb., II, 1844, 373, part; only the reference to the 

 Kittlitz specimen, as above. * 



