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SCIURIDiE— TAMIA8 STRIATT'S. 



783 



Sdurui ( 7'o«iia«) ttriaUit Hall, Canad. I.'at. and Geol. 1861, 290.— Adams, Field and Forest Baniblea, 1873, 



100 (New Brunswick). 

 Sdunii carolinertit BniBSON, Qnad. I'rC, I'W. 

 Sclum (Tamiaa) hjatiri Gicuaiidsom, Fann. Bor.-Amer. i, 1829, 181, pi. xv.— DorCHTv's Cab. Nat. Hist. i, 



1S;0, 169, pi. XV. 

 TaPtiai tyileri Waqnfr, Snppl. Scbreber's Siinget. iii, IMS, 232, pis. rcxiv, ccxix.— ScniNZ, Synop. Mam. 



ii, 1845, 47.— AtDUBOK & Bacdman, Qnad. N. Amer. i. If 49, 65, pl. viil.— Gikbel, Piinget. 1855, 



6S9.— Maximilian, Archiv f. Nnturgesch. 1861, 79. 

 Ground Sqvirrel, Lawsuit, Nat. Hist. Carol. 1718, 124.— Biiickkll, North Carol. 1737, li;9.— Catesby, 



Carol, ii, 1743, 75, pl. Isxv.— Euwaiids, Birds, iii, 1751, 181, pl. clxxxi. — Pennant, Synop, 



Qoad. 1771, 288 (in part).— Kalm, Travels (Forster's transl.), i, 1770, 322, pi. i. 

 £ciirmil <SiiiM«, Saoard-'I'b^odat, Hist, du Canada, 1636, v, 746.— Dknys, Descrip. de I'Aiu^r. Sept. ii, 



1672, 3:11.— La Hostan, Voy. dans I'Ani^r. ii, 1709, 43. 

 i« Suittt, Charlevuix, Jonm. (Pun Voy. dans TAni^-. Sept. v, 174-4, 198.— Du Pbatz, Hist. Lonis. ii, 1758, 



98.— BiiKKON, Hist, Nat x, 1763, 126, pl. xxviii. 

 Erdeiehhorn and ESiKlwiuttxr, Kajm, Reisen (German edit.), ii, 1757, 462. 

 Jmtrican Ground Sgulrrfl, Gilpin, Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. 8ci. ii, pt. 3, 1870, 15. 

 Slriptd Squirrel, Chipping t'guirrtl, Ground Squirrel, CUpaunk, Le SuiMt, Uaekee, VuLOO. 



Specific chars. — Length (head aud body) 5,75; tail to end of verte- 

 brse 3,65 ; to end of hairs 4,25. Middle of the dorsal region gray, passing into 

 rufous posteriorly, with five longitudinal narrow stripes of black, the two outer 

 on either side separated by a line of white ; sides washed with yellowish ; 

 head above brownish ; whole lower surface of the body white ; tail blackish 

 above, edged with while, centrally below yellowish-rufous, bordei- d with black 

 and edged with white. A light superciliary lint: extends from the nose nearly 

 to the ear, which immediately above the eye is nearly pure white; a less 

 distinct light line below the eye, which on the lower eyelid is nearly white; 

 below this a faint stripe of reddish-brown, and another somewhat darker 

 behind the eye. Nose whitish ; feet like the sides of the body. 



The color varies somewhat in different specimens from the same locality, 

 especially in lespoct to the brightness of the yellowish wash on the sides of 

 the body, and of the rufous of the posterior portion of the back, and also in 

 the color and size of the dorsal stripes. The light stripes are generally yel- 

 lowisli- or creamy-white, but are sometimes nearly pure white. The black 

 stripes are generally distinctly bordered with dark rufous or chestnut, and 

 vary in respect to width and longitudinal extension. The middle one begins 

 at the occiput as a narrow, often indistinct line of dark rufous, generally 

 mixed more or loss with black. At the shoulders, it expands, and passes 

 thence posteriorly as a narrow black stripe bordered with rufous to within 

 u short distance of the base of the tail. The two lateral black stripes are 

 rather broader, but much shorter than the middle one, extending only from 

 the posterior edge of the shoulder to the hip. The outer on eith<!r side is 



