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I? 



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868 MONOGRAPHS OP NORTH AMERICAN RODBNTIA. 



TablbCXIII.— Afe(Miireiii«n/»o/ l*r<!e«i)eoliii«ii«o/ SpRBMOPiiii.U8 0ii80i.mm. jj »[■!■, 



Lomlilr. 



,iw>.- 



50 miles west of Fort Kearney. 

 330 mllea west of Fort Keiiniejr 

 Fort Laramie 



From tip of 

 : Doee to» 



1.35 

 1.70 

 1.60 



S.80 

 9.W 



TuU bj end 

 of- 



9.40 

 9.3S 



3.45 

 &80 

 3.30 



I 



Freih. 



..do. 



..do. 



Table CXIT.-'tiat of gpeament examined of 8pehmopiiii.U5 obsolktds. 



SPERMOPHILUS MEXICANUS (Licht.) Wagner. 

 VexIcaiB Spernophlle. 



ttkhmiB mexicantu Erxlrbe:!, Syst. Anim. 1777, 438 (in part only, if at all. From Fhrnandrz and 

 Seba, etc. Also Sdurvs iHtxicanui of Schrebkr, Gmklin, Shaw, Fischer, and other early 

 cotnpileni, baaed on tbe same), 



Cililliu meiicatiua Lichtenstein, Darst. S'iuget. 18^7-34 (not paged), pi. xxxi, fig. 8, 



Sptjmophilut mextoamia Waoner, Snppl. Scbreber's Siinget. iii, 1843, 250.— Brandt, Bnll. PhyBico-math. 

 Cla88e Acad. St. Pdtersb. ii, 1844, %iO.— BcoiNZ, Syn. Hamm. ii, 1845, (i6.— Audubon & Bach- 

 man, Qna<l. N. Amer. iii, 1653, 39, pi. oix (excluaive of enppoeed yonng). — Giebel, Situget. 

 1855, 638.— Baird, Mam. N. Amer. 1857, 319 ; U. 8. and Hex. Bonnd. Sarv. II, pt il, 18r>», 39.— 

 Allen, Pijc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvl, 1OT4, 291. 



^ctNriM Imaulipenrit Berlandier, MSS. ^ 



t TlamototU, Fernandez, Anim. 1051, 9. 



tSdurue, rarU»imii», ex JVai'd Hitpanid, twniit aW», Seba, Theso. i, 1734, 76, pi. xlvli, fig. 2. 



Specific chars. — Length of head and body 8.00 to 8.50 ; of tail to end 

 of vertebrae 4.00 to 4.50 ; to end of hairs about 5.75. Above, rather dark 

 yellowish-brown, varying to reddish-brown, with generally a decided tinge of 

 olivaceous and numerous rather distinct lines (generally either nine or eleven) 

 of Riibquadrate spots of wiiitc; below, whitisli, varying to yellowish-white on 



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