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under parts grayish white. Dark dorsal stripes black 

 mixed with yellowish or rusty brown ; outer ones usually ob- 

 solete. Light stripes pale gray, outer ones whitish. Facial 

 streaks dusky brown and gray. Tail above orange and 

 black; beneath orange rufous bordered with black and 

 fringed with yellowish. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — Wasatch and Uintah ranges of northern 

 and central Utah. I found this species very common in the 

 foothills west of Kamas, Utah, where they seemed to favor 

 the strip of ground between a spring-moistened gully and 

 a big wheat field. 



RELATED CHIPMUNK: WASATCH 

 CHIPMUNK 



TAMIAS MINIMUS CONSOBRINUS (AUen) 



Tamias asiaticus var. pallidus Allen, Mon. N. A. Roden, 1877, 



p. 793. (Part) 

 Tamias minimus consobrinus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., 1890, p. 112. Elliot, Syn, N. Am. Mamm. P. C. M. 



Pub. II, 1901, p. 78. Zool. Ser. 



Description — A very much darker-colored animal than 

 minimus: in midsummer pelage almost black-looking; the 

 dark dorsal stripes are very black, with a faint edging of 

 bright chestnut and fairly wide ; the inner light stripes nar- 

 row, quite a dark gray, the outer a much lighter gray, 

 nearer white; sides of body deep, bright rufous; flanks 

 dark gray ; upper surfaces of feet pale rufous or rusty ; top 

 of head black with gray and rufous hairs intermixed ; dark 

 facial stripes rather black; light stripes grayish, not very 

 distinct; postauricular spot grayish white; below grayish 

 white; tail above, black, with some rufous intermixed, be- 

 low rufous with black border ; the tail is thin as in E. mini- 

 mus. In winter pelage the animal is grayer, and the col- 

 ors are not so intense. (Warren.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this species is the 

 Wasatch foothills, near Salt Lake City, Utah. Its range ex- 

 tends throughout the eastern border of the Great Basin in 

 eastern Utah, western and southern Colorado, and north- 

 western New Mexico. 



Habits— The sharp notes of this chipmunk are charac- 

 teristic sounds in the depths of the aspen and spruce for- 

 ests. Deserted cabins are especially frequented by them, 



