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variegated silvery gray, yellowish brown and black under 

 parts silvery gray washed with creamy yellow. Tail above 

 yellowish brown, mixed with black, bordered and tipped with 

 white; below reddish brown fringed with white. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this species is Camp 

 Floyd, Utah; and though it extends into Nevada the exact 

 range of this spermophile is not fully determined. 



ARMED SPERMOPHILE 



CITELLUS ARMATUS (Kennicott) 



Spermophilus armatus Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil. 

 1863,. p. 158. 



Description — Stout; ears large; feet large; tail short, 

 bushy; pelage soft. Above dark gray and black, washed 

 with brown on middle of the back ; shoulders, rump and 

 thighs ochraceous brown. Under parts silvery gray iinged 

 with yellowish, dark bases of hairs showing through. Tail, 

 above and below mixed gray and black, subterminal black 

 border, and black tip edged with gray. (Elliot.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this species is Fort 

 Bridger, Utah, though the geographic distribution of this 

 spermophile includes parts of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and 

 Montana, the precise range having as yet been undeter- 

 mined. 



ELEGANT SPERMOPHILE 



CITELLUS ELEGANS (Kennicott) 



Spermophilus elegans Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil. 



1863, p. 158. 

 Spermophilus richardsoni var. townsendi Allen, Men. Rod. 



1877, p. 848 (nee. Bachm.). 



Description — Upper parts brown, with an indistinct 

 mottled or spotted appearance caused by the tips of the hairs 

 l)eing black; in some lights the animal seems to be trans- 

 versely crossed by narrow irregular wavy black lines ; top of 

 head like but without the spotted appearance ; caused by the 

 tips of the hairs being black ; in some lights the animal seems 

 io be transversely crossed by narrow irregular wavy black 



