1 44 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XIX, 



(Vol. II, 1858, p. 337) as possibly furnishing a name for this 

 species. Kittlitz says: "Hier [in the mountains near Ganal] 

 ward zwischen Alpenpflanzen plotzlich eine weibliche Jew- 

 raschka gefangen, ein kleines Murmelthier, das dem Arctomys 

 citillus nahe steht. Die Art unterscheidet sich von ahnlichen 

 bei Pallas beschriebenen hauptrachlich durch die geringere 

 Zahl der Mammellen, deren nur acht sind. Das Exemplar 

 ward in Petersburg unter dem Namen Spermophilus brun- 

 niceps, Brandt, aufgestellt und von mir im Jahr 1835 beschrie- 

 ben und abgebildet." I am unable, however, to find that 

 Kittlitz ever published a description or figure of the animal, or 

 that the name Spermophilus brunniceps has ever appeared 

 elsewhere. Brandt appears not to have published it , as in 1 844 

 (Bull. Acad. Sci. St. P^tersb., phys.-math. Cl., Vol. II, 1844, p. 

 373) he identifies this same specimen with Spermophilus parryi. 

 The name Spermophilus brunniceps as used by Kittlitz is 

 practically a nomen nudum, since the only feature mentioned ,. 

 the number of mammae, cannot be considered as sufficiently 

 distinctive. 



ii. Arctomys, sp.? 

 SIBERIAN MARMOT. 



The genus Arctomys is not represented in the collection. 

 Mr. Buxton refers to a species of this genus in his notes as 

 follows : 



"Arctomys sp.? Marmot. Russian local name, Tar-bah- 

 ghn. The people living at Gichiga say that a species of mar- 

 mot is found at Baronesskorf Gulf where they are abundant. 

 Mr. W. H. Shockley, an American mining engineer, who was 

 in charge of an English expedition which prospected the coast 

 of Siberia for gold from East Cape to Petropavlovsk in the 

 summer of 1900, said that they were abundant at Olutorski 

 Gulf where they lived in the rocks along the coast. In the 

 summer of 1901 I saw a Yakutsk native from the Kolyma 

 River district with a cap made from their skins, and he ex- 

 plained to me that it was a mark of wealth to possess such a 

 cap, although at Baronesskorf Gulf the skins are worth but 

 sixty kopecks each." N. G. B. 



