376 DOUGLASS' SPERMOPHILE. 



GENERAL REMABE8. 



The first description of this species ■was given by Dr. Richardson, who 

 received from Douglass a hunter's skin, which, containing no skull, he 

 was prevented from deciding on the genus. We have ascertained that 

 in its dentition it is a true spermophile, and in all other respects possesses 

 the characteristics of that genus. 



In the valuable collection of the London Zoological Society we ex- 

 amined a specimen of S. Beecheyi, brought by Mr. Collie, which so 

 strikingly resembles this species, that we are greatly inclined to think 

 they will yet be found identical ; we have, therefore, quoted it for the 

 present as a synonyme, but marked it with a doubt, as an examination 

 of a greater number of specimens might probably change our views. 



