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Santa Rosa Peak, Tahquitz Valley, and the road between Schain's 

 Ranch and Fuller's Mill. It was not an abundant species at any 

 point, two or three individuals being about as many as were seen 

 anywhere in the course of a day's collecting. 



The six specimens preserved, all adults, taken on dates rang- 

 ing from June 5 to August 17. arc in extremely worn and ragged 

 pelage, some of them showing the beginning of the growth of new 

 hair mi the head, and at points on the back. 



Eutamias merriami merriami (Allen) 

 Merriam Chipmunk 



A common species on the coastal slope of the mountains, 

 mostly in high Upper Sonoran and lower Transition, ranging 

 upward in smaller numbers to upper Transition. Specimens 

 were collected as follows: Poppet Flat. 4000 feet, two i nos. 1645. 

 1668); Schain's Ranch. 4900 feet, six (nos. 164:1. 1644. 1646, 

 1647, 1669, 1670) ; Fuller's Mill, 60(H) feet, ten (nos. 1745-1754) ; 

 Strawberry Valley. 6000 feet, six (nos. 2091-2096); Tahquitz 

 Valley. 8000 feet, two (nos. 2156, 2157); Round Valley. 9000 

 IV,. i. two (nos. 1755, 1756); Ilemct Lake. 4400 feet, two (nos. 

 2238, 2239 i ; Kenworthy, 4500 feet, nine (nos. 1873-1881 ) ; Gar- 

 net Queen Mine, 6000 feet, one (no. 1997) ; Santa Rosa Peak. 

 750H feet, three (nos. 1994-1996); Toro Peak, 8000 feet, three 

 (nos. 1991-1993); forty-six in all. Also observed on Thomas 

 Mountain, 6800 feet, but none collected there. One was heard 

 calling in the brush of the foothills near Banning at the north 

 base 'if the mountains, the lowest point where the species was 

 noted. 



The species was everywhere an inhabitant of the chaparral. 

 Though common on the brush-covered hills surrounding Ilemct 

 Valley, as at Kcnworthy and Hemet Lake, individuals were 

 never seen in the clumps of timber scattered in the sagebrush of 

 the valley just below. In Tahquitz Valley, and on some of the 

 surrounding ridges, they frequented tracts of chinquapin and 

 young fir trees. 



Round Valley. IIOOO feet, is an unusually high record station 

 for the species, but tracts of brush such as were occupied com- 



