144 Frecp Museum or Naturat History — Zoérocy, Vor. XI. 
excite the least motion or contraction of the muscles in any way, even 
by pinching or cutting nerves, showing the most perfect condition of 
anesthesia possible. During hibernation the gopher is not able to 
endure more than 6° or 8° of frost. The manifestations of life are so 
feebly performed that a few degrees below freezing is sufficient to 
convert apparent death into the reality.’ (Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. 
Sci., Aug., 1875, pp. 148-149.) 
Specimens examined from Illinois, Wisconsin and adjoining states: 
Illinois — Chicago, 30; Fox Lake, 2=32. 
Wisconsin — Beaver Dam, 14; (M. P. M.) Delavan (albino), 1; Cata- 
line, 3; Maiden Rock, 4; Mouth Yellow River, Burnett Co., 3; 
Milwaukee Co., 4; Muskego Lake, 2; Lindwurm, Niles Co., 1; 
Upper St. Croix Lake, 11; Prescott, 16; Fountain City, 1; Genoa, 
Vernon Co., 2= 52. 
Iowa — Luxemburg, 1. 
Minnesota — Fort Snelling, 3. 
Citellus franklini (SaBINE). 
FRANKLIN’S PRAIRIE SQUIRREL. 
Gravy PRAIRIE SQUIRREL. GRAY GROUND SQUIRREL. GRAY GOPHER. 
FRANKLIN’S GROUND SQUIRREL. FRANKLIN’S SPERMOPHILE. 
Arctomys franklinit SABINE, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII, 1822, p. 587. 
Spermophilus grammurus LarHaAM, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc., II, 1852 (1853), 
p. 339 (Wisconsin). 
Spermophilus Franklinit KEennicott, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), 
p. 579 (Cook Co., Illinois). StronG, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 440 
(Wisconsin). ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1871, p. 189 (Iowa). 
Spermophilus franklinii KENNicoTTI, Agr. Rept. for 1856, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 
-1857, p. 79 (Illinois). 
Spermophilus franklini Cours & ALLEN, Monog. N. Amer. Rodentia, 1877, pp. 884- 
885 (Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc.). OsBorn, Proc. Iowa. Acad. Sci., 
I, 1887-89 (1890), p. 43 (Iowa). Herricx, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Sur. Minn., Bull. 
No. 7, 1892, p. 166 (Minnesota). EvERMANN & BuTLeEr, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 
1893 (1894), p. 129 (Indiana). Barey, U.S. Dept. Agr., Bull. No. 4, Ornith. 
& Mamm., 1893, p. 48 (Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Dakota, etc.). SNYDER, 
Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., II, 1902, p. 115 (Wisconsin). 
Citellus franklint Jackson, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 18 (Wisconsin). 
HOLLIsTER, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, 1908, p. 139 (Wisconsin). HAHN, 
Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 478 (Indiana). 
Woop, Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 528 (Illinois). 
Type locality — Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada. 
Distribution — From the Saskatchewan Region southeast over the 
Red River and Mississippi valleys to eastern Nebraska and Kansas 
to central Missouri, extending eastward as far as northwestern 
