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MONOGUAl'US OF NORTU AMKUICAN RODBNTIA. 



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Vlir. TOWNSENDI. 



Townsend's Chipmunk, 



Ta.miat loumiievdi Baciiman, Journ. Acad. Niit. 8oi. Phila. viii, 1«19, 68 ; TownsendV NirroUve, ia39, 321.— 

 Waonkr, WieKinanii's Arcliiv, 184:1, pt. ii, 44.— Audubon & Baciiman, Quad. N. Am. i, 1849, 

 l.W, pi. XX.— Baihd, Mam. N. Am. 1857, ;«X), pi. xlv, fig. 4 (skull) ; pi. v, tig. 2 (" var. cooperi"; 

 animal).— CooPRR, Nat. Hist. \Va«li. Territory, pt. iii, 1859, 80.— Sucklky, ib. 97, 122.— 

 Gkay, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 'M sur. xx, 18()7, 435, 



Tamiat loifimendi var. moiwri Baird, Mam. N. Am. lH.'i7, pi. v (nsino on plate), 



Tamiat hindtii Ora v, Ann. .ind Ma;;. Nat. Hist, x, 1H42, 2(i4 ; ZoSI. Voy, of Sulphnr, 1844, 34, pi. xii, fig. 1 ; 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ger, xx, 18fi7, 4 15. 



;:,'Vimin< cooperi Bairi>, I'roc. Acud. Nut. 8c.'. Pliila. vii, 1855, :)34; Mara. N. Am. 18.57, 301, foot-note. 



lamiaa qaadrintactilaliu Okay, Aud. and Mug. Nat, Hist, 3d sur, xx, 1867, 435, 



Var. DOK8ALI8. 



IIIU Chipmank, 



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Tamiat dorialis Baird, Proo, Acad, Nat. 8oi. Phila, vii, 1855, 332; Mam, N, Am. 1857, 300, pi. xlvi, animal ; 

 U. 8. and Mex. Bonnd. 8arvey, ii, pt. ii, 1859, 37. — Okay, Add. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser, 

 XX, 1867, 436.— CoUES, Amer. Nat. i, 1867, 358 ; Froc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Pbila, 1867, 134 (Arizona). 



Timiai quadrivitlaiut var. dormlii Aij,en, Proo. Host. 8nc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 1874, 290,- CouKS &. Yii.. J.OW, 

 Wheeler's ExpL and Sarv. West of lOOtb Murid. v, Zodl. 1876, 119. 



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Var. borealis. ■' 



Northern C ^^utik. 



Varietal charo, — Size of var, townsendi or smaller. Length of head 

 and body 5,50 ; of tail to end of vertebrae 3.92 ; to end of hairs 5.00 {Pallas). 

 Above, pale yellowish-gray, with a faint wash of brownish-fulvous on the 

 sides ; back with five lines of bl»ck, alternating with four lines of yellowish- 

 gray, all of nearly equal breadth and rather sharply defined ; beneath, gray- 

 ish-white ; sides of the head with rvo narrow lines of grayish- white extending 

 from the nose to the ear, separated by a brownish-black stripe ; a narrow 

 blackish-brown stripe above the light ones, and another below them. The 

 middle black stripe of the back extends from the occiput to the base of the 

 tail. The next on either side begins nt the front edge of the shoulder and 

 extends also nearly or quite to the base of the tail; the outer on eitiier side 

 extends only from the posterior edge of the shoulder to the hip. The black 

 stripes are eulier not at all or only very faintly edged with pale rufous. The 

 tail above is blackish, with the hairs pale yellowish at b; crossed bv .; sub- 

 terminal bar of black and tipped with white. The lower surface of the tail 

 is pale yellowish centrally, with a subterminal border of black edged with 

 ycllowisi. -white. 



Habitat. — Northeastern Europe, Northern Asia, aud Northwestern North 



