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assumption that this type was collected near San Francisco, California (cf. 
Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 77, 1890), specimens representing 
the three forms occurring in that general region — 'pricei, sonomce, and “Mndsii ” — • 
were sent to Mr. Thomas, who kindly compared them with the type of hindsii 
only to find that the latter agreed with none of them but was closely matched by 
specimens of townsendii from British Columbia. 
The type specimen of hindsii was taken by Capt. Edward Belcher on the 
voyage of the Sulphur but the exact locality whence it came is unknown. 
The original label and the British Museum register credit it to “California,” 
a name loosely applied in those days to the greater part of the Pacific coast of 
the United States. We learn from the narrative of the voyage of the Sulphur 
that the vessel put in at a number of ports on that coast, from Nootka Sound, 
British Columbia, to Magdalena Bay, Lower California and that collections were 
made in the vicinity of San Francisco and on the Sacramento River, also in the 
vicinity of Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia River. In view of 
the positive indentification of the type with the species inhabiting the latter 
region it seems most probable that the specimen was taken at or near Fort 
Vancouver. 
Mr. Thomas’s identification of the type with Eutamias townsendii is confirmed 
by an examination of the colored plate in “The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. 
Sulphur,” which certainly resembles townsendii much more nearly than it does 
the form from Marin County, California, which has for many years been known 
under the name E. hindsii. The original description, also, though inadequate, 
fits certain specimens of townsendii without violence and in the mention of white 
underparts agrees with townsendii rather than with the California form. Mr. 
Thomas is of the opinion that the inscription “near San Francisco” was written 
on the type label at a later date by someone in the British Museum — evidently 
however, without authority for the statement. 
Doctor Allen in his revision of the genus in 1890, attempted to define the type 
locality in the following words: “Tamias hindsii was originally based on a speci- 
men almost unquestionably taken in the immediate vicinity of San Francisco, 
California, in the month of November.”^ That this assumption, however, is 
unwarranted is shown by the facts already cited. 
Since Eutamias hindsii now becomes a synonym of E. townsendii townsendii, 
the form from Marin County, California currently known as “hindsii” must be 
provided with a new name, and it is a pleasure, therefore, to name it in honor of 
the late Dr. J. A. Allen. 
REMARKS ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF EUTAMIAS 
The last revision of the entire group was that of Allen, in 1890, in 
which 23 forms were recognized.^ Merriam, in 1897, published a 
synopsis of the Pacific Coast forms, with a revision of the townsendii 
and speciosus groups.® Since the time of Allen’s revision the material 
^ Allen, J. A., Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 77. 
® Allen, J. A., op. cit., pp. 45-116, 1890. 
6 Merriam, C. Hart, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, pp. 189-212, 1897. 
