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
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; pelage dark; sides dark; narrow cranial
breadth; baculum distinguishable from that of any other species (E.
palmeri excepted) by the combination of width of base more than 1/3 of
length of shaft, distal 1/2 of shaft laterally compressed, and keel
1/4 of length of tip.
=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 U. S. Nat.
Mus., Biol. Surv. Coll.; from Blacks Fork, about 9,500 ft.,
Uinta Mountains, Utah; obtained on September 19, 1888, by
Vernon Bailey; original No. 228.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; general tone of upper parts dark
and shadowy; skull relatively small.
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Head Pale Smoke Gray; facial
stripes Fuscous Black to Snuff Brown; ear Fuscous Black;
posterior margin of ear and postauricular patch grayish
white; median dorsal dark stripe black with Sayal Brown along
margins; lateral pair of dorsal dark stripes Sayal Brown or
Fuscous Black mixed with Sayal Brown; outermost pair of
dorsal dark stripes nearly absent; sides Sayal Brown mixed
with Cinnamon; rump and thighs Sayal Brown mixed with
Smoke Gray; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of feet
Cinnamon-Buff; ventral surface of tail Ochraceous Tawny or
Sayal Brown, with Fuscous Black around margin and Pinkish
Buff around outermost edge; underparts creamy white with
dark gray underfur. _Skull_: Large, with moderately inflated
braincase and well developed zygomata. _Baculum_: One of the
largest in the species.
_Comparisons._--From _Eutamias umbrinus adsitus_, the
subspecies to the south on the Wasatch Range, _E. u.
umbrinus_ differs in: Sides lighter; rump browner; hairs
around outermost edge of tail tawnier (in freshly molted
tails); shorter inner mandibular length.
From _E. u. inyoensis_, the subspecies to the west in central
and northeastern Nevada and in northwestern Utah, _E. u.
umbrinus_ differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter;
sides lighter; total length more; interorbital region
broader.
For comparisons with _E. u. sedulus_, _E. u. fremonti_, and
_E. u. montanus_, see the accounts of those subspecies.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 55.
=Wyoming=: _Uinta Co._: 9 mi. S Robertson, 8,000 ft., 15;
10 mi. S and 1 mi. W Robertson, 8,700 ft., 5; 11-1/2 mi. S
and 2 mi. E Robertson, 9,200 ft., 1; 2 mi. E and 12 mi. S
Robertson, Ashley Nat. For., 1; 13 mi. S and 2 mi. E
Robertson, 9,200 ft., 1.
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