Vot. IIT] GRINNELL—MAMMALS OF CALIFORNIA 345 
Family SCIURIDAE 
Marmota flaviventer (Audubon and Bachman) 
Yellow-bellied Marmot 
Original description—Arctomys flaviventer Audubon and 
Bachman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., October, 1841, pp. 99, 
100. 
Type locality—Mountains between Texas and California. 
Synonym—Y ellow-bellied Woodchuck. 
Range—High Transition and Boreal zones on the Sierra 
Nevada from Cannell Meadow (near Kern County line), 
Tulare County, north at least to Nevada County (Mus. Vert. 
Zool.). 
Citellus beecheyi douglasi (Richardson) 
Douglas Ground Squirrel 
Original description-—Arctomys douglasii Richardson, 
Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1, 1829, p. 172. 
Type locality—Banks of the Columbia River, Oregon. 
Synonyms—Citellus douglasi; Citellus variegatus douglasi; 
Spermophilus grammurus douglasi; Citellus grammurus doug- 
lasi. 
Range—Upper Sonoran and Transition zones throughout 
northern California, north from San Francisco Bay to the 
Oregon line; east across the upper end of the Sacramento 
Valley and through the Shasta and Modoc regions to the 
Warner Mountains. The range of douglasi is restricted to 
the west side of the Sacramento River north as far as Butte 
Creek, when it spreads northeast across the Valley to take in 
Chico and the mountain mass beyond, including Lassen Peak 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.; Merriam, Dept. Agric., Bur. Biol. Surv. 
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Citellus beecheyi beecheyi (Richardson) 
California. Ground Squirrel 
Original description—Arctomys beecheyi Richardson, Fauna 
Boreali-Americana, 1, 1829, p. 170, pl. 12. 
Type locality—Neighborhood of San Francisco and Monte- 
rey, in California. 
August 26, 1913. 
