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 Pale Smoke Gray mixed with
Cinnamon; upper facial stripe Fuscous; other facial stripes Sayal
Brown mixed with Fuscous or Fuscous Black; anterior margin of ear
Ochraceous Tawny; posterior margin of ear and postauricular patch
grayish white; median dorsal dark stripe Fuscous or black; other
dorsal dark stripes black and mixed with gray, sometimes barely
discernible; dorsal pair light stripes Smoke Gray; lateral pair of
light stripes creamy white; rump and thighs Pale Smoke Gray mixed
with Cinnamon; dorsal surface of tail Fuscous Black mixed with
Tilleul Buff; underside of tail Cinnamon Buff or Pinkish Buff,
Fuscous Black around margin and Tilleul Buff around outermost edge;
antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of feet Cinnamon Buff;
underparts creamy white; sides Pinkish Cinnamon or Light Pinkish
Cinnamon. _Skull_: Size medium; braincase well inflated; zygomata
strong, moderately appressed to cranium. _Baculum_: Small; keel
approximately 1/3 of length of tip.
_Remarks._--Only a few specimens of this subspecies have ever been
taken in Wyoming. Little is known about the habits of this chipmunk,
which normally is shy and wary.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 6.
_Sweetwater Co._: W side Green River, 1 mi. N Utah border, 6.
_Additional records_ (Howell 1929:134): _Sweetwater Co._: Green
River, 4 mi. NE Linwood, Utah.
[Illustration: FIG. 3. Known occurrences and probable geographic
distribution of the subspecies of _Eutamias umbrinus_ in Wyoming. See
figure 1 for explanation of symbols.
1. _E. u. umbrinus_
2. _E. u. fremonti_
3. _E. u. montanus_]
Eutamias umbrinus (J. A. Allen)
_Diagnosis._--Size large; general tone of upper parts dark; base of
baculum widened; outermost dorsal dark stripe barely discernible or
lacking; skull rarely shorter than 34.0 mm.
_Comparisons._--For comparisons with the other species of
_Eutamias_ in Wyoming, see the accounts of _E. minimus_, _E.
amoenus_, and _E. dorsalis_.
_Remarks._--_E. umbrinus_ is the largest of the species of _Eutamias_
occurring in Wyoming. This species usually occurs in the Canadian and
Hudsonian life-zones in the mountains of northwestern, southwestern,
and south-central Wyoming.
Eutamias umbrinus umbrinus (J. A. Allen)
_Tamias umbrinus_ J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 3:96,
June, 1890.
_Eutamias umbrinus_, Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.,
30:45, December 27, 1901.
_Type._--Male, adult, skull and skin, No. 186463 (NM); from Blacks
Fork, about 9,500 ft., Uinta Mountains, Summit County, Utah;
obtained on September 19, 1888, by Vernon Bailey; original No. 228.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; over-all tone of upper parts dark and
shadowy; skull smallest of this species in Wyoming.
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