Visher (1914:88) reported that he obtained a red squirrel in the Long
Pine Hills, along the western border of Harding County, in July of 1910
and noted that the species had been reported to him as occurring also in
the West Short Pine Hills. Visher's record evidently has been overlooked
by subsequent cataloguers (see, for example, Hall and Kelson, 1959: map
257). Insofar as we can ascertain, _T. hudsonicus_ does not now occur on
any of the pine-clad buttes and ridges of the county, although the
species is present in relatively dense stands of ponderosa pine in the
Long Pine Hills of adjacent Carter County, Montana, at a place only a
few miles west of the South Dakota border. Probably some individuals
stray into the relatively small and sparsely-wooded areas of the Long
Pine Hills that extend eastward to the north of Camp Crook.
On the basis of color, specimens we have examined from the Long Pines
clearly are assignable to _T. h. dakotensis_ rather than to _T. h.
baileyi_, substantiating in part the statement of the distribution of
_dakotensis_ published by Miller and Kellogg (1955:263).
~Thomomys talpoides bullatus~ Bailey, 1914