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from that genus, no doubt naturalists will arrange them in the genus 

 Tamias. 



When this genus was first established by Iluger, but a single species 

 was satisfactorily known, and naturalists were unwilling to separate it 

 from the squirrels, to which it bore so strong an affinity ; but we are now, 

 however, acquainted with six species, and doubt not that a few more 

 years of investigation will add considerably to this number. We have 

 consequently adopted the genus Tamias of that author. 



The word Tamias is derived from the Greek T«iK.(«?, (tamias,) a keeper 

 of stores — in reference to its cheek-pouches. 



One species of this genus exists in the Northern portions of the Eastern 

 continent ; four in North, and one in South, America. We also possess 

 an undescribed species, the habitat of which is at present unknown to us. 



TAMIAS LYSTERI.— Ray. 



Chipping Squikrel, Hackee, &c. 



PLATE VIII. — Male, Female, and Young (First Autumn.) — Natural size. 



T. dorso fusco-cinereo, striis quinque nigris, et duobus luteo-albis longi- 

 tudinalibus ornato ; ftonte et natibus fusco-luteis ; ventre albo. 



characters. 



Broumish gray on the back ; forehead and buttocks brownish orange ; five 

 longitudinal black stripes, and two yellowish white ones, on the back ; under 

 surface, white. 



SYNONYMES. 



EcuREUiL SoissE, Sagatd Theodat, Canada, p. 746, A. D. 1636. 

 Gboond Squirrel, Lawson'3 Carolina, p. 124. 



" " Catesby, Carol, vol. ii., p. 75. 



Edwards, vol. iv., p. 181. Kalm, vol. i., p. 322. 

 SciuRUS LrsTERi, Ray, Syuops. Quad., p. 216, A. D. 1693. 

 Le Suisse, Charlevoix, Nouv. Fr., vol. v., p. 196. 

 Striped Dobmoosk, Pennant, Arc. Zool., 4 vols., vol. i., p. 126. 

 SciURUS Carolinensis, Brisson, Reg. Anim., p. 155, A. D. 1756. 

 EcuREUiL Suisse, (Desm. Enc. Mamm.,) Nota, p. 339, Esp., 547. 



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