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Title: A New Chipmunk (Genus Eutamias) from the Black Hills

Author: John A. White

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A New Chipmunk (Genus Eutamias) from
the Black Hills

BY
JOHN A. WHITE

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 19, pp. 259-262
April 10, 1952

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1952

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 19, pp. 259-262
April 10, 1952

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1952

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A New Chipmunk (Genus Eutamias) from
the Black Hills

BY
JOHN A. WHITE

Study of the chipmunks from the eastern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
reveals that the chipmunks from northeastern Wyoming and from South
Dakota which Howell (N. Amer. Fauna, 52:55, November 30, 1929) referred
to _Eutamias minimus borealis_ actually belong to a heretofore unnamed
subspecies which may be named and described as follows:

#Eutamias minimus silvaticus# new subspecies

_Type._--Female, adult, skull and skin, No. 20050 Mus. Nat. Hist.,
Univ. Kansas; from 3 mi. NW Sundance, 5900 ft., Crook County,
Wyoming; obtained on July 4, 1947, by H. W. Setzer; original No.
1692.

_Range._--Bear Lodge Mountains in northeastern Wyoming and the
Black Hills of South Dakota.

_Diagnosis._--Size large (see measurements); general tone of
upper parts drab; sides Ochraceous Buff (capitalized terms are of
Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, Washington, D. C.,
1912); lateral stripes Fuscus Black washed with Ochra