Fes., 1912. MamMats oF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN — Cory. 135 
Genus EUTAMIAS Trouessart. 
Eutamias Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Bull. Soc. Etudes 
Angers, X, 1880, p. 86. Type Sciurus striatus asiaticus Gmelin. 
The members of this genus differ from those belonging to Tamias 
in being smaller, the back’ stripes narrower and closer, and the tail 
relatively longer; there are also two additional premolars. 
=A 
I o-o 
m = M. 373 _ ao, 
I-I 3-3 
Dental formula: I. 
Eutamias borealis neglectus (ALLEN). 
LITTLE CHIPMUNK. 
Tamias quadrivittatus neglectus ALLEN, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., III, 1890, p. 
106. MIL_er, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, 1897, p. 31 (North Bay 
and north shore of Lake Superior, Ontario). 
Tamias asiaticus var. quadrivittatus HERRICK, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. 
No. 7, 1892, p. 162 (Minnesota). 
Tamias quadrivittatus STRONG, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 440 (Wis- 
consin). Barrett, Amer. Nat., VII, 1873, p. 695. 
Eutamias quadrivittatus neglectus JACKSON, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 
17 (Wisconsin). ApAms, Rept. State Board Geol. Surv. Mich., 1905 (1906), 
p. 128 (Michigan). Seton, Life Historics of Northern Animals, I, 1909, p. 364. 
Eutamias borealis neglectus HOLLISTER, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 139 
(Wisconsin). 
Type locality — Eastern shore of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada. 
Distribution — Ranges from northern Wisconsin, northern Michigan 
and central Minnesota northward into Canada, throughout the 
greater part of Ontario and Keewatin to about latitude 55°; replaced 
from Manitoba and North Dakota westward by Euiamias borealis. 
Special characters — Smaller than the common Chipmunk, and stripes 
narrower, tail relatively longer; cheek stripes whitish. 
Description — A whitish stripe above and below the eye; back with 
five black stripes and four pale stripes, the outer pale stripes being 
distinctly whitish, the inner pale ones grayish; the middle black 
stripe extends from between the eyes to base of tail; sides of 
body orange brown or tawny; hairs on under parts tipped with 
white but plumbeous at base, giving a grayish white appearance 
to the fur; tail pale rufous brown, the hairs subterminally marked 
with black and tipped with pale rufous brown or tawny brown. 
Measurements — Total length, about 8.50 in. (216 mm.); tail vertebre, 
3.75 in. (91 mm.); hind foot, 1.25 in. (31.8 mm.). Extremes of 20 
