94 MAMMALS OF UTAH 



usually on steep slopes. . . . The hay stacks of these in- 

 dustrious little animals, comprising their winter food, are 

 composed of many species of grasses and weeds, cut and 

 gathered in summer, and allowed to dry among the rocks. 

 Thistles are found in most of these stacks, and seem to be 

 a favorite food. Well worn runways lead from one stack to 

 another and extend to neighboring rock slides. Conies are 

 usually quite shy and would be seldom observed were it not 

 for the odd, complaining notes which they utter continually 

 when alarmed. (Gary.) 



PAROWAN PIKA 



OCHOTONA SCHISTICEPS FUSCIPES (Howell) 



Ochotona schisticeps fuscipes Arthur H. Howell, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., Vol. 32, p. 110, May 20, 1919. 



Description — Color of type in summer pelage: Upper 

 parts mixed light pinkish cinnamon and fuscous-black (the 

 blackish prevailing) ; tip of nose fuscous-black ; sides of nose 

 and face smoke gray, tinged with buff and washed with 

 fuscous ; back of head and nape washed with pale neutral 

 gray ; ears fuscous black, margined with buffy white ; sides 

 pinkish cinnamon mixed with fuscous, becoming clear pink- 

 ish cinnamon along side of belly; hind feet soiled whitish 

 washed with pale cinnamon buff, the soles fuscous; front 

 feet cinnamon buff, the palms hair-brown; under parts 

 grayish white, heavily washed with pinkish cinnamon. 

 (Howell.) Mr. Howell states that it is similar to O. cinna- 

 momea, but larger with larger and relatively broader skull 

 and more blackish coloration. 



Distribution — The type specimen was taken by Wilfred 

 H. Osgood on September 7, 1908, from Brian Head, Parowan 

 mountains, Utah. The race is based on a series of five 

 adults and one young, all from the same place. The limits 

 of its range are at present unknown. 



Habits — Nothing is known of its habits except that it is 

 apparently more closely related to schisticeps of the north- 

 ern high Sierra and to taylori of southern Oregon than to 

 cinnamomea, its neighbor. 



