SOIURID^— SPBRKOrHILUS PBANKLINI. 



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Tabi.b CXXlU.—liat of 8j)ccim«Ra examined of Sp. tiudecemumeatus var. palmdus— Continuod. 



* Iq Mnsonm uf Cotiipnrativn Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



SPERMOPHILUS FRANKLINI ^Sabine) Lesson. ,, 

 Franklin's Spermopblle ; dray beaded Bpermophtle. 



Arciomyt franklini Sadine, Trooo. LioD. Sao. xiii, 1822, 587, pi. xzvii; ibid. Narr. Franklin's Joiiru. 1822, 

 662 (Fort Enterprise and Cumberland Honse).— Harlan, Fann. Am. 1825, 167.— Godman, 

 Am. Nat. Hist, if, 1826, 109.— Fischer, Synop. Mam. 1820, 343. 



Arciomyt (SpermopHliu) franklini BicnARDSON, Faan. Bor.-Am. i, 1829, 168, pi. xii. 



Sjaermophilua franklini Lesson, Man. de Mam. 1827, 244. — " F.Cuvier, Suppl. Buffon, i, 1831, Mamm. 328."— 

 WaONER, Suppl. Sohreber's Siiuget. iii, 1843, 244, pi. cox, A(" Jrctomj/a /VanHKni Sabine" on 

 plate).— Brandt, Bull. FbyBico-math. Classe Acad. St. Pdteisb. ii, 1844, 379.— AumiiiON & 

 Bachman, Quad. N. Am. ii, 1851, 248, pi. Ixxxiv.— SciiiNZ, Syn. Mam. il, 1845, 67.— Kenni- 

 COTT, Patent OfiBoe Kep. 1856, ARriouIt. (1857), 79, pi. ix.— Baird, Mam. N. Am. 1857, 314, 

 pi. xlvi, fig. 4 (sknll).- Thomas, Trans. 111. 8tat« Agr. Soo. iv, ISIil, 657.— Hayden, Trans. Am. 

 Pbil. Soc. Phila. xii, 1863, 145.-AIXKN, Proo. Best. Soo. Nat. Hist, xiil, 1870, 189 (lowo); 

 xvi, 1874, 291. — Bishop, Forest and Stream, vii, 1877, 342 (its iutroductlon into New Jersey). 



Specific chars. — Length to base of tail 9.00 to 10.50 ; of tail to end 

 of vertebrsB 5.00 to 6.50 ; to end of hairs 6.25 to 8.50. Above, yellowish- 

 brown, varied with black, the black chiefly in the form of small squarish 

 spots ; eyelids white ; front and sides of head and neck, the thighs, and but- 

 tocks pure gray ; top of head gray, sometimes varied more or less with 

 yellowish-brown; below, grayish-white; tail grayish-white, with three lines 

 of black, the outer quite broad and broadly edged with white. Ear small, 

 about 0.20 high ; tail-vertebrae about one-half the length of the head and 

 body; tail di ;hous, hairs long and abundant; form rather slender; pelage 

 harsh, consisting of coarse stiff hairp, without under fur. 

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