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Cascade Eapicl, August 11. AVe saw it at Athabaska Landino-. 

 August 30. taking one si^ecimen. Its cheek pouches were filled with 

 seeds of Rosa. 



In 1903 we saw chipmunks at several points between Edmonton 

 and Fort Chipewvan on our northward journey, and my brother 

 and Car}^ during their outward trip noted the species at Smith Land- 

 ing and at several points on the Athabaska. including their camp 30 

 miles above Athabaska Landing, where they collected one September 

 8. During the same season I failed to detect it to the northward of 

 Great Slave Lake. At Fort Simpson the animal was reported rare, 

 and this accorded with my experience. A. F. Camsell saw one on the 

 Mackenzie a few miles above the mouth of the Liard about October 

 25, when 6 inches of snow lay on the ground. 



During the spring of 1904 I failed to observe the animal at Fort 

 Simpson, but received a report that one was seen on the hills west 

 of the post about the middle of May. During my outward trip I 

 occasionally observed it along the Athabaska. 



In September, 1891:. J. Alden Loring found the species rather 

 common about the borders of fields near Edmonton. He took a num- 

 ber of specimens, some of which had their cheek pouches filled with 

 oats, September 19 to 21. During his trip from Edmonton to the 

 mountains, in the early autumn of 1895, he observed it at several 

 places, but nowhere found it common. He took specimens on McLeod 

 River, August 16 ; at Henry House, September 10 to 12 ; and at Moose 

 Creek, west of Lake Ste. Anne. October 16. In 1896. on again visiting 

 western Alberta, he found it occurring sparingly throughout the 

 region, and took specimens 15 miles south of Henry House. Jul}^ 15 

 to IT: at the head of Muskeg Creek, north of Jasper House. August 

 29: on Grand Cache Eiver, 60 and 70 miles north of Jasper House, 

 August 31 to September 5 : at Fishing Lake, 90 miles north of Jasper 

 House, September 17 : at Grand Cache, Smoky Eiver, September 19 : 

 and on Muskeg Creek, 15 miles from its mouth, September 25. 



Some of the specimens from near Henry House are larger and 

 darker than the rest of the series from western Alberta, and suggest 

 the possibility of intergradation with Eufcmias ftlur. 



Under the name ' Sr-iuiKs (Tcr/uas) qnndi-irittatus' Eichardson 

 recorded specimens procured by Drummond near the source of Peace 

 Eiver." Eoss first recorded it from Liard Eiver, under the name 

 T. quadrivittatiis. stating that it was very abundant there.^ In some 

 notes from Eoss. published by Allen, he gives it as ranging north 

 to Fort Good Hope, but as being rare at Fort Simpson and north of 

 Liard Eiver. and states that at Fort Liard and Fort Eesolution the 



« Fauna Boreali-Americana. I. p. 184, 1829. (See note on Drummond's itiu- 

 f rary, p. 60.) 



^Can. Nat. and Geol., VII, \^. llo. 1862. 



