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excite the least motion or contraction of the muscles in any way, even 

 by pinching or cutting nerves, showing the most perfect condition of 

 anaesthesia possible. During hibernation the gopher is not able to 

 endure more than 6° or 8° of frost. The manifestations of life are so 

 feebly performed that a few degrees below freezing is sufficient to 

 convert apparent death into the reality." (Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. 

 Sci., Aug., 1875, pp. 148-149.) 



Specimens examined from Illinois, Wisconsin and adjoining states: 

 Illinois — Chicago, 30; Fox Lake, 2 = 32. 

 Wisconsin — Beaver Dam, 14; (M. P. M.) Delavan (albino), i; Cata- 



line, 3; Maiden Rock, 4; Mouth Yellow River, Burnett Co., 3; 



Milwaukee Co., 4; Muskego Lake, 2; Lindwurm, Niles Co., i; 



Upper St. Croix Lake, 11; Prescott, 16; Fountain City, i; Genoa, 



Vernon Co., 2 = 52. 

 Iowa — Luxemburg, i . 

 Minnesota — Fort Snelling, 3. 



Citellus franklini (Sabine). 



Franklin's Prairie Squirrel. 



Gray Prairie Squirrel. Gray Ground Squirrel. Gray Gopher. 



Franklin's Ground Squirrel. Franklin's Spermophile. 



Arctomys franklinii Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII, 1822, p. 587. 



Spermophilus grammurus Lapham, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc, II, 1852 (1853), 



P- 339 (Wisconsin). 

 Spermophilus Franklinii Kennicott, Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), 



P- 579 (Cook Co., Illinois). Strong, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 440 



(Wisconsin). Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1871, p. 189 (Iowa). 

 Spermophilus franklinii Kennicott, Agr. Rept. for 1856, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 



1857, P- 79 (Illinois). 

 Spermophilus franklini Coues & Allen, Monog. N. Amer. Rodentia, 1877, pp. 884- 



885 (Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc.). Osborn, Proc. Iowa. Acad. Sci., 



I, 1887-89 (1890), p. 43 (Iowa). Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn., Bull. 



No. 7, 1892, p. 166 (Minnesota). Evermann & Butler, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 



1893 (1894), P- 129 (Indiana). Bailey, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bull. No. 4, Ornith. 



& Mamm., 1893, p. 48 (Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Dakota, etc.). Snyder, 



Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, II, 1902, p. 115 (Wisconsin). 

 Citellus franklini Jackson, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, VI, 1908, p. 18 (Wisconsin). 



Hollister, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, VI, 1908, p. 139 (Wisconsin). Hahn, 



Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 478 (Indiana). 



Wood, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 528 (Illinois). 



Type locality — Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada. 



Distribution — From the Saskatchewan Region southeast over the 

 Red Rivef and Mississippi valleys to eastern Nebraska and Kansas 

 to central Missouri, extending eastward as far as northwestern 



