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
_Type._--Male, adult, skull, skin, and baculum, No. 158181 U.
S. Nat. Mus. Biol. Surv. Coll.; from Mount Ellen, Henry
Mountains, Garfield County, Utah; obtained on October 13,
1908 by W. H. Osgood; original No. 3667.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; general tone of upper parts dark
reddish-brown; ventral surface of tail Ochraceous-Orange;
sides Mars Yellow.
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Crown Drab-Gray mixed with
Fuscous; upper facial stripe Fuscous Black mixed with Sudan
Brown; ocular stripe Sudan Brown mixed with black; submalar
stripe Sudan Brown slightly mixed with black; anterior margin
of ear Sudan Brown slightly mixed with black; hairs inside
pinna, posteriorly, Warm Buff; posterior margin of ear and
postauricular patch creamy white; median dorsal dark stripe
black with Antique Brown along margins; lateral dorsal dark
stripes black mixed with Antique Brown; outermost dorsal dark
stripes Xanthine Orange slightly mixed with black; median
dorsal light stripes Pale Smoke Gray; outermost dorsal light
stripes white slightly mixed with gray; rump and thighs Smoke
Gray; sides Mars Yellow; dorsal surface of tail black mixed
with Warm Buff; ventral surface of tail Ochraceous-Orange,
with black around margin, and Warm Buff around outermost
edge; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of feet
Ochraceous-Buff; underparts creamy white with dark underfur.
_Skull_: Large; braincase moderately inflated; zygomata
strong. _Baculum_: As in _E. u. umbrinus_.
_Comparisons._--From _E. u. umbrinus_, the subspecies from
the Uinta and northern Wasatch Mountains of Utah, _E. u.
sedulus_ differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter;
sides lighter.
From _E. u. adsitus_, the subspecies from the southern
Wasatch Range in Utah and Kaibab Plateau in Arizona, _E. u.
sedulus_ differs in: Sides lighter; general tone of upper
parts markedly lighter.
From _E. u. inyoensis_, the subspecies from central and
northeastern Nevada, and western and northwestern Utah, _E.
u. sedulus_ differs in: Sides lighter (less grayish); general
tone of upper parts tawnier.
For comparison with _E. u. montanus_, see the account of that
subspecies.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 7 BS, all from the type
locality.
=Eutamias umbrinus inyoensis= Merriam
_Eutamias speciosus inyoensis_ Merriam, Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington, 11:202, 208, July 1, 1897.
_Type._--Male, adult, skull and skin, No. 29387/41462 U. S.
Nat. Mus. Biol. Surv. Coll.; from Black Canyon, 8,200 ft.,
White Mountains, Inyo County, California; obtained on July
7, 1891, by E. W. Nelson; original No. 1069.
_Diagnosis._--Size medium; sides light; general tone of
upper parts light; baculum one of largest in species.
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