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
=Utah=: _Rich Co._: Monte Cristo, 18 mi. W Woodruff, 8,000
ft., 2 UU. _Summit Co._: 13-1/2 mi. S and 2 mi. E Robertson
[Wyoming], 4; 1 mi. N Bridger Lake R. S., 9,400 ft., 4.
_Wasatch Co._: Snake Creek Canyon, 3 mi. NW Midway, 6,000
ft., 1 UU. _Uintah Co._: Paradise Park, 21 mi. W and 15 mi.
N Vernal, 10,050 ft., 20.
=Eutamias umbrinus adsitus= J. A. Allen
_Eutamias adsitus_ J. A. Allen, Brooklyn Institute
Mus. Sci. Bull. 1:118, March 31, 1905.
_Type._--Unsexed adult, skull and skin, No. 28728 Amer. Mus.
Nat. Hist.; from Briggs Meadow, 10,000 ft., Beaver Mountains,
Utah; obtained on August 20, 1904, by George P. Engelhardt.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; sides dark; general tone of upper
parts dark; dorsal light and dark stripes strongly
contrasting.
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Head Cinnamon mixed with
grayish white; stripe on margin of crown Verona-Brown or
Bister; ocular stripe Fuscous Black mixed with Sayal Brown;
submalar stripe Sayal Brown; ear Fuscous, Sayal Brown along
anterior margin and Smoke Gray along posterior margin
and on postauricular patch; median dorsal stripe black;
lateral dorsal dark stripes Fuscous Black mixed with
Russet; outermost dorsal dark stripes slightly darker or
indistinguishable from sides in color; dorsal light stripes
grayish white with Mikado-Brown along margins; outermost pair
of dorsal light stripes nearly pure white; sides Russet mixed
with Cinnamon or Ochraceous-Tawny; rump and thighs Smoke Gray
mixed with Cinnamon-Buff, with a larger or smaller number of
Fuscous Black hairs; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of
feet Cinnamon-Buff; dorsal surface of tail black; ventral
surface of tail Sayal Brown to Tawny; underparts white with
dark underfur. _Skull_ and _Baculum_: As in _E. u. umbrinus_.
_Comparisons._--From _E. u. inyoensis_, the subspecies to the
west, _E. u. adsitus_ differs in: General tone of upper parts
darker; sides darker; interorbital region wider; skull
significantly deeper.
For comparison with _E. u. umbrinus_, _E. u. sedulus_, and
_E. u. montanus_, see the accounts of those subspecies.
_Remarks._--Specimens from West Rim, Zion National Park, 6,500 ft.,
Washington County, Utah, seem to be intergrades between _E. u.
adsitus_ and _E. u. inyoensis_, and are referable to _E. u. adsitus_.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 34.
=Utah=: _Beaver Co._: Britts Meadow, Beaver Range Mountains,
8,500 ft., 13 BS. Wayne Co.: Donkey Lake, Boulder Mountain,
10,000 ft., 4 UU. _Garfield Co._: Wildcat R. S., Boulder
Mountain, 8,700 ft., 5 UU.
=Arizona=: _Coconino Co._: De Motte Park, Kaibab Plateau, 3 BS;
Bright Angel, Kaibab Plateau, 9 BS.
=Eutamias umbrinus sedulus= new subspecies
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