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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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