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each chipmunk usually seized a large piece in its 
mouth and scampered off, returning as soon as we 
withdrew. In fact they made themselves perfectly 
at home in camp.’’ 
The striped gopher and spermophile. A 
variety of this species, the sage-chipmunk of 
TWO SPECIES OF ROCKY-MOUNTAIN CHIPMUNKS. 
From Warren’s ‘‘Mammals of Colorado.'’ By Permission of G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons. Photo by H. W. Nash. 
the Great Basin, is the smallest and sprightliest 
of the race. It lives mainly in the sage-brush, 
scrambling about these diminutive bushes or 
scampering from one to the other, and often 
sitting on the top of a sage-bush eating the 
little seeds from its hands; but, like other 
