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than the red squirrel, with ears very round and with tufts on them; 

 the colour brownish, the whiskers quite black, as well as the tip of 

 the tail. The other is smaller and has the tip of the tail black. I 

 have only seen it close to the mountains. A third is a large ground 

 squirrel, with a tail somewhat resembling that of a flying-squirrel, 

 which may be a spermophile. 



ISToETHEBsr Chipmunk — Eutamias quadrivittatus horealis 



(Allen). 



Specimens of this chipmunk were collected at Salt Eiver 

 (an affluent of the Slave Eiver below Fort Smith, Athabasca 

 District) , Forts Resolution and Eae, Great Slave Lake, Fort 

 Liard, and one also by the writer, labelled " Mackenzie 

 Eiver," Avhich was probably secured between Fort Good 

 Hope and Font Simpson. I never observed any in the Ander- 

 son region. Mr. Eoss* gives its range as extending to Fort 

 Good Hope, and states these animals were very destructive 

 to such garden produce as was raised at Fort Eesolution. 

 Dr. Frank Eussell secured two examples at Grand Eapids, 

 near the outlet of the Saskatchewan Eiver into Lake 

 Winnipeg. 



Say's Chipmunk — Eutamias lateralis Say, sp. 



Mr. Drummond obtained examples of this species in the 

 Eocky Mountains some seventy or more years ago, in about 

 latitude 57° north. I cannot say that I ever saw a speci- 

 men, neither did Mr. Preble on his recent collecting expe- 

 ditions to Hudson's Bay meet with or hear aught of this 

 chipmunk. 



Paeey's Speemophile — Citellus parryi (Eichardson) . 



Abundant in the Barren Grounds, on the Arctic coast, 

 and in the vicinity of many of the rivers and lakes of the 

 far-north country. In the early sixties of the last century 

 numerous specimens were obtained from Fort Anderson, the 



•'Manuscript notes in the Smithsonian Institution. 



