Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming — John Shaqi
Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of WyomingWhite, John A.
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Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming
White, John A.
Chipmunks
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Crown Cinnamon Buff mixed with
Pale Smoke Gray; facial stripes Fuscous Black mixed with Sayal
Brown; anterior margin of ear and hairs inside posterior part of
pinna Cinnamon Buff; posterior margin of ear and postauricular
patch Pale Smoke Gray; dorsal dark stripes black with Ochraceous
Tawny along margins; median dorsal light stripes Pale Smoke Gray
with Ochraceous Tawny along margins; lateral dorsal light stripes
white; sides Tawny or Ochraceous Tawny; rump and thighs Light
Grayish Olive; dorsal surface of tail Fuscous Black slightly mixed
with Clay Color; ventral surface of tail Sayal Brown or Ochraceous
Tawny with Fuscous Black along margin and Clay Color along
outermost edge; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of feet
Ochraceous Buff; underparts grayish white, often washed with Buff.
_Skull_ and _Baculum_: Large but of same proportions as in other
subspecies of _E. minimus_.
_Comparisons._--For comparisons with _E. m. minimus_, _E. m.
pallidus_, _E. m. confinis_, and _E. m. silvaticus_, see the
accounts of those subspecies.
_Remarks._--Specimens from the mountains near Savery in Carbon County
and from near Medicine Bow Peak in Carbon and Albany counties are
clearly referable to this race on the basis of color pattern. However,
in the skull and baculum these specimens resemble _E. m. minimus_.
Specimens from the Laramie Range, 27 mi. N Laramie, show a color
pattern which tends toward that of _E. m. pallidus_.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 118.
_Natrona Co._: 2 mi. W and 7 mi. S Casper, 6,370 ft., 2; 10 mi. S
Casper, 7,750 ft., 3; 6 mi. S and 2 mi. W Casper, 5,900 ft., 1.
_Converse Co._: 21-1/2 mi. S and 24-1/2 mi. W Douglas, 7,600 ft.,
10.
_Carbon Co._: Lake Marie, 10,440 ft., 1; 2 mi. S and 1/2 mi. W
Medicine Bow Peak, 10,400 ft., 1; 2 mi. S and 2 mi. W Medicine Bow
Peak, 10,700 ft., 1; 10 mi. N and 14 mi. E Encampment, 8,000 ft.,
2; 8 mi. N and 14 mi. E Encampment, 8,400 ft., 2; 8 mi. N and 16
mi. E Encampment, 8,400 ft., 3; 21-1/2 mi. E and 8 mi. N
Encampment, 9,400 ft., 2; 10 mi. E and 6 mi. S Saratoga, 8,800 ft.,
1; 8 mi. N and 19-1/2 mi. E Savery, 8,800 ft., 16; 17 mi. E and 7
mi. N Savery, 8,300 ft., 1; 7 mi. N and 19 mi. E Savery, 10,128
ft., 1; 14 mi. E and 6 mi. N Savery, 8,400 ft., 1; 5 mi. N and 5
mi. E Savery, 6,900 ft., 2.
_Albany Co._: 27 mi. N and 7-1/2 mi. E Laramie, 6,960 ft., 12; 13
mi. E and 9 mi. N Laramie, 7,700 ft., 2; 8-3/4 mi. E and 6-1/2 mi.
S Laramie, 8,200 ft., 1; 5-1/2 mi. ESE Laramie, 8,500 ft., 1; 8 mi.
E and 4 mi. S Laramie, 8,600 ft, 1; 2 mi. SE Pole Mountain, 8,200
ft., 19; 3 mi. S Pole Mountain, 8,100 ft., 2; 1 mi. SSE Pole
Mountain, 8,350 ft., 3; 3 mi. ESE Browns Peak, 10,000 ft., 15;
2-1/2 mi. ESE Browns Peak, 10,300 ft., 1.
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