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MONO(JllAIMI8 OF NOUTH AMKUICAN KODEXTIA. 



siii},'l<! black HpocliiiPH of T. siriatus I luivc seen was also markod on (he 

 throat, will) a l()n>,'itu(liiial Mtripe of white, but was clsewlicre wholly black. 



GKoaRAi'JiiCAL DisTKinuTioN. — Tlic inost easterly points from which I 

 have seen specimens of this species arc the northern shore of Lake Superior 

 and Nelson's River, Hudson's Bay Territory. To the northward it ranges 

 nearly to the Barren Grounds.* In the United States, it is met with all along 

 the I'orty-ninth parallel; it is common in the Bad Lands of the Upper Mis- 

 souri and Yellowstone Rivers, in the Black Ilills of Dakota, and in the eastern 

 foot-hrils of (he Rocky Mountains southward to New Mexico. It is repre- 

 sented by sonic one of its forms thence westward to the Pacific coast, and 

 as (iir southward as Ariz(ma. In respect to the distribution of the several 

 varieties, little need be said in addition to the remarks respecting their habi- 

 tats already given. The ranges of vars. pallidus and quadrivittalus curiously 

 interblend, the latter occupying the wooded mountain-ranges of the Rocky 

 Mountain plateau, while the former occurs generally over the sterile plains 

 and desert areas from the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains to the 

 Great Basin. East of the Missouri, the species appears to o;cur only in 

 Northern Minnesota and Northern Dakota, its range gradually extending 

 southward west of the Missouri. In the Upper Missouri country, Dr. Cooperf 

 found them in the Bad Lands fifty miles west of Fort Union, and at the 

 eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. I found them also common in the 

 Bad Lands of the Yellowstone River, J and even as far eastward as the Little 

 Missouri, and they occur doubtless thence westward to the Rocky Mountains, 

 wherever there is shrubbery. 



In the Old World, this species ranges from the shores of the Okotsk 

 Sea westward over the whole of Northern Asia, and to the Dwina River in 

 European Siberia. According to von Schrenck, it occurs on Saghalien Island, 

 as far southward on the mainland as Hadshi Bay, in lat. 49°, and in the inte- 

 rior along the whole course of the Amur River and its tributaries. The 

 same writer states that Temminck obtained it in Japan. 



" Rpsiwctiiig its rongo in the Fur Countries, Mr. DuiiaUl Giimi oliservia: — " 1 have not seen »ny of 

 thorn in llie .Suvcrn Itivcr District; but tlioy are at Oxford House -inil Nelson River. They may Inhabit 

 other loculiiies to tlio nortlioast of Lake Winnipeg." — {MS. Xotm in ike Smilheonian Imlitution.) 



Mr. 15. K. Ross gives its range as extending to Fort Good Hope, but as bring " rare at Fort Simp- 

 son and north of Liurd's River. At Forts Resolution and Liari), theF« nnlmals aro very dMtrnctive to 

 sucli giirden produce as is raised there."— (AfS. Nolo <» Smitlumnian IiuHtution.) 



tArner. Nat. vol. ii, p. 5:10. 



t I'roc. Uost. Soc. Nit. Hist, xvii, 1874, 43. . , ' 



