4; 7-1/2
mi. W and 1 mi. S Buffalo, 6,500 ft., 2.
_Additional records_ (Howell 1929:46): _Sheridan Co._: 20 mi. from
Sheridan. _Washakie Co._: Head of Canyon Creek. _Johnson Co._: Head
of North Fork of Powder River.
Eutamias minimus silvaticus White
_Eutamias minimus silvaticus_ White, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat.
Hist. 5 (19):259-262, April 10, 1952.
_Type._--Female, adult, skull and skin, No. 20050 (KU); from 3 mi.
NW Sundance, 5,900 ft., Crook County, Wyoming; obtained on July 4,
1947, by H. W. Setzer; original No. 1692.
_Diagnosis._--Size large; over-all tone of upper parts brownish
gray; sides Ochraceous Buff; baculum as in _E. m. pallidus_.
_Description._--_Color pattern_: Crown Sayal Brown washed with
Cinnamon Buff; facial stripes Fuscous Black mixed with Clay Color;
anterior margin of ear Ochraceous-Orange; hairs inside posterior
part of pinna Ochraceous Buff; posterior margin of ear and
postauricular patch grayish white; dorsal dark stripes Fuscous
Black more or less mixed with Ochraceous Buff; medial dorsal light
stripes Pale Smoke Gray with Ochraceous Buff along margins; lateral
dorsal light stripes grayish white or white with Ochraceous Buff
along margins; sides Ochraceous Buff; rump and thighs Smoke Gray
washed with Ochraceous Buff; dorsal surface of tail black
interspersed with Ochraceous Buff; ventral surface of tail
Ochraceous-Orange, with black along margin and Light Ochraceous
Buff along outermost edge; antipalmar and antiplantar surfaces of
feet Light Buff; underparts creamy white sometimes washed with
Ochraceous Buff. _Skull_ and _Baculum_: Large but of same
proportions as in other subspecies of _E. minimus_.
_Comparisons._--From _E. m. operarius_, the subspecies from
south-central Wyoming, _E. m. silvaticus_ differs in: Underside of
tail lighter; general tone of upper parts grayer; sides lighter;
skull and baculum of same size and proportions.
For comparisons with _E. m. pallidus_ and _E. m. confinis_, see the
accounts of those subspecies.
_Remarks._--Intergradation between _E. m. silvaticus_ and _E. m.
pallidus_ has already been discussed under the account of _E. m.
pallidus_.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 42.
_Crook Co._: 15 mi. N Sundance, Black Hills Nat. Forest, 5,500 ft.,
6; 15 mi. ENE Sundance, 3,825 ft., 1; 3 mi. NW
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