TAM IAS STRIATUS. 
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Oliver B. Lockhart at Lake George, Warren County, in 1872 or 
1873. Mr. W. W. Lockhart saw another near the same place at 
about the same time.* * * § 
Formerly, the species was found in many parts of the State. In 
the year 1853 a specimen was presented to the State Cabinet of 
Natural History by Isaac B. Lottridge, who shot it at Hoosic, in 
Rensselaer County. f Two other specimens (male and female) 
were afterwards presented to the State Cabinet by Mr. Lottridge. 
Both “were taken in Rensselaer County, New York, in the spring 
of 1854.” % 
Dr. J. Bachman, writing in 1839, speaks thus of this animal: 
“ In the northern part of New York it is exceedingly rare, as I only 
saw two pair during fifteen years of close observation. In the 
lower part of that State, however, it appears to be more common, 
as I recently received several specimens procured in the County of 
Orange.” § 
TAMIAS STRIATUS (Linn.) Baird. 
Chipmunk ; Ground Squirrel ; Striped Squirrel ; Chipping Squirrel. 
The Chipmunk or Ground Squirrel is always present in greater 
or less numbers in some parts of the Adirondacks. It is a migra- 
tory animal and is exceedingly abundant some years, while during 
others it is scarcely seen at all, the difference being dependent upon 
the quantity of the food-supply. 
The Striped Squirrel feeds upon a variety of nuts and roots, 
* Since the above was written I have teamed, through Dr. A. K. Fisher, that a caged Fox 
Squirrel escaped, near the southern end of Lake George, previous to the date of killing of Mr. 
Lockhart’s specimen. Hence it is possible, though I -think hardly probable, that the specimen in 
question was imported. 
f Seventh Annual Report of the Regents of the University on the Condition of the State Cabi- 
net of Natural History, 1854, p. 15. 
X Eighth Annual Report on the Condition of .the State Cabinet, 1855, p. 15. 
§ Monograph of the Genus Sciurus. Charlesworth’s Magazine of Natural History, Vol. Ill, 
1839, p. 161. 
