Volume 1

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America / By John James Audubon ... and ... John Bachman.

  • John James Audubon
Date:
1846-1854
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    TAMIAS QU ADRIVITT ATUS.—Say. Four Striped Ground-Squirrel. PLATE XXV.—Male, Female, and Young. Natural size. T. striis quinque sub nigris longitudinalibus, cum quatuor sub albidis dorso alternatum distributis; corpore magnitudine T. Lysteri minore; lateribus rufo fuscis, ventre albo. CHARACTERS. Smaller than Tamias Lysteri ; jive dark brown stripes, and four light- coloured stripes occupying the whole back; sides, reddish-brown; underneath, white. SYNONYMES. Sciurus Quadrivittatus, Say, Long’s Expedition, vol. ii., p. 349. “ “ Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. v., No. 665. “ “ Harlan, Fauna, p. 180. “ “ Godman, vol. ii., p. 137. Sciurus (Tamias) Quadrivittatus, Rich., Zool. Jour., No. 12, p. 519, April, 1828; Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 184, pi. 16. Tamias Minimus, Bach., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., vol. viii., part 1, Young. DESCRIPTION. Head, of moderate size ; nose, tapering, but not very sharp. The mouth recedes very much, (as in all the other species of Tamias;) cheek-pouches, of moderate size; whiskers, about the length of the head; eye, small; ears, erect, of moderate length, clothed on both surfaces with very short hairs ; body, rather slender ; fore-feet, with four toes and a small thumb, armed with an obtuse nail; palms, naked; claws, compressed, and curved like those of Tamias Lysteri. Hind-feet, with five slender toes; soles, covered with short hairs for three-fourths of their length; tail, long, nar- row and sub-distichous. COLOUR. Forehead, dark-brown, with a few whitish hairs interspersed; a nar*