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 Smoke Gray mixed with
Ochraceous Tawny; upper facial stripe Fuscous; other facial stripes
Fuscous or Fuscous Black mixed with Tawny; hairs inside posterior
part of pinna Light Ochraceous Buff; anterior margin of ear
Ochraceous Tawny; posterior margin of ear and postauricular patch
grayish white; median dorsal dark stripe black with Ochraceous
Tawny along margins; other dorsal dark stripes black mixed with
Ochraceous Tawny; median pair of dorsal light stripes grayish white
with Ochraceous Tawny along margins; lateral pair of light dorsal
stripes white; sides Ochraceous Tawny or Light Sayal Brown; rump
and thighs Smoke Gray mixed with Cinnamon Buff; dorsal surface of
tail Fuscous Black mixed with Cinnamon Buff; ventral surface of
tail Sayal Brown, Fuscous Black along margin, and Cinnamon Buff or
Ochraceous Buff along outermost edge; antipalmar and antiplantar
surfaces of feet Light Pinkish Cinnamon or Pinkish Buff; underparts
grayish white mixed slightly with Buff. _Skull_ and _Baculum_:
Small but proportionally the same as in other subspecies of _E.
minimus_.
_Comparisons._--From _E. m. pallidus_, the subspecies to the east,
_E. m. consobrinus_ differs in: Color darker; size smaller; skull
narrower and shorter; baculum shorter.
From _E. m. confinis_, the subspecies from the Big Horn Mountains,
_E. m. consobrinus_ differs in: Over-all tone of upper parts less
grayish; underside of tail lighter; skull narrower and shorter;
baculum shorter.
For comparisons with _E. m. minimus_ see the account of that
subspecies.
_Remarks._--Specimens of this subspecies from the area between the
Uinta Mountains and the mountains of the Wyoming and Wind River ranges,
are clearly intergrades between _E. m. consobrinus_ and _E. m. minimus_
and are here referred to _E. m. consobrinus_. These specimens are paler
than typical _E. m. consobrinus_ and considerably darker than _E. m.
minimus_. These intergrades came from an area where the habitat is
intermediate between that of _E. m. consobrinus_ and _E. m. minimus_
but more nearly like that of _E. m. consobrinus_.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 135.
_Yellowstone Park_: Fishing Bridge, 1 (MM).
_Park Co._: SW slope Whirlwind Peak, 9,000 ft., 1.
_Teton Co._: N end Blacktail Butte, 6,600 ft., 1 mi. E Moose, 1;
Bar BC Ranch, 6,500 ft., 2-1/2 mi. NE Moose, 2; 3-3/4 mi. E Moose,
6,300 ft., 3; 3-3/4 mi. E and 3/4 mi. S Moran, 6,210 ft., 2; 5 mi.
S Moran, 1 (FC); 2 mi. S Elk Ranch, 2 (FC); 7 mi. S Moran, 1 (FC);
19 mi. E and 2 mi. S Moran, 1; Flat Creek Pass, 1 (MM); Flat
Creek-Crystal Creek Divide, 1 (MM); Flat Creek-Granite Creek
Divide, 5 (MM); Dry Hollow, Jackson, 1 (MM); Jackson, 4 (MM); Jenny
Lake, 2 (MM); Sheep Creek, Jackson, 1 (MM).
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