Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinusWhite, John A.
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Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus
White, John A.
Chipmunks
=New Mexico=: _San Juan Co._: Blanco, 1 BS; Chuska Mountains,
8 BS. _Rio Arriba Co._: 8 mi. N El Rito, 1; 4 mi. N El Rito,
5; Rim Rock, El Rito, 2; 2 mi. E El Rito, 7,000 ft., 1; 2 mi.
SE El Rito, 1; 6 mi. E and 1/2 mi. S Truchas, 8,500 ft., 1; 2
mi. S and 4 mi. W Coyote, 8,100 ft., 1; unspecified, 2. _Taos
Co._: 3 mi. N Taos Pueblo, 5 BS; 23 mi. S and 6 mi. E Taos,
8,750 ft., 2. _Union Co._: Emery Peak, 1 BS; Folsom, 3 BS;
Sierra Grande, 8 BS; unspecified, 2. _McKinley Co._: Bear
Ridge, Zuni Mountains, 9 BS. _Sandoval Co._: Bear Canyon, W
foothills, Sandia Mountains, 3 BS; W foothills, near S end,
Sandia Mountains, 7 BS. _Santa Fe Co._: San Pedro, 7 BS. _San
Miguel Co._: Canadian River, 4 mi. NW Tucumcari, 1 BS.
_Valencia Co._: Mount Taylor, San Mateo Mountains, 10 BS.
=Oklahoma=: _Cimarron Co._: Kenton, 1 BS.
=Eutamias quadrivittatus hopiensis= Merriam
_Eutamias hopiensis_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 18:165, June 29, 1905.
_Eutamias quadrivittatus hopiensis_, Howell, Jour.
Mamm. 3:184, August 4, 1922.
_Type._--Female, adult, skull and skin, No. 67768 U. S. Nat.
Mus.; from Keams Canyon, Painted Desert, Arizona; obtained on
July 27, 1894, by A. K. Fisher.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; dorsal dark stripes tawny; crown
Drab-Gray; baculum of same proportions as in _E. q.
quadrivittatus_ but smaller.
[Illustration: FIG. 2. Localities of specimens examined and
probable geographic ranges of the subspecies of _Eutamias
quadrivittatus_ and _Eutamias umbrinus_. The symbols for
locality records are as follows: circles, precise localities;
triangles, localities known only to county.
Guide to subspecies:
1. _E. q. quadrivittatus_
2. _E. q. hopiensis_
3. _E. u. umbrinus_
4. _E. u. adsitus_
5. _E. u. sedulus_
6. _E. u. inyoensis_
7. _E. u. nevadensis_
8. _E. u. fremonti_
9. _E. u. montanus_]
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Head Drab-Gray, with Snuff
Brown around margin of crown; facial stripes Sayal Brown with
small blackish patches around eye; ears Ochraceous Tawny
anteriorly and Pinkish Buff posteriorly; dorsal stripes
Tawny, median one sometimes blackish; median pair of dorsal
light stripes grayish white, outer pair creamy white; sides
Ochraceous Tawny; rump and thighs Cinnamon Buff washed with
Pale Smoke Gray; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of feet
Pinkish Cinnamon; dorsal surface of tail Fuscous Black;
ventral surface of tail Ochraceous Tawny, Fuscous Black along
margin, Cinnamon Buff along outermost edge; underparts creamy
white. _Skull_: As in _E. q. quadrivittatus_. _Baculum_: Same
proportions as in _E. q. quadrivittatus_ but smaller.
_Comparisons._--See under the account of _E. q.
quadrivittatus_.
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