MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



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streams in the region around Fori?: Clarlt, Kinney County, Texas. 

 Pecan nuts and acorns were its principal food. 



Record and measurements of 21 specimens of Soiurus ruflventer texianus. 



aAmerican Museum of Natural History. & Head and body, 275. c Collection of Louis di Z. Mearns. 



Genus EUTAMIAS Trouessart (1880). 



Eutamias Teouessart, Catalogue des Mammiferes, Vlvants et Fossiles, 

 Rongeurs, 86, 1880 (new subgenus). — Mekeiam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XI, July 1, 1897, p. 189 (adopted as a full genus). 



Dentition. — I. j;j; V. jij; M. gig : 



22. 



Type. — Sciurus striatus asiaticus Gmelin. 



I have followed Doctor Merriam " in according generic value to the 

 subgenus Eutamias of Tamias, to which Trouessart assigned the 

 character " premol. 2/1." The type of Eutamias (fixed by Dr. 

 J. A. Allen'') is Tam,ias asiaticus (Gmelin). As stated by Doctor 



"Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 189. 



6 Proc. Linnsean Soc. New York, July, 1894, p. 26. 



