Pelage silky; tail bright orange beneath; markings relatively
obscure; size small; skull broad, flattened, and large in
proportion to body.
Baculum: Shaft thin; keel low, 1/7 of length of tip; tip 39 per cent of
length of shaft; angle formed by tip and shaft 135 deg.; distal 1/3 of
shaft slightly compressed laterally; base slightly wider than shaft;
shaft short, 2.17 mm.
Differs from _E. speciosus_, _E. panamintinus_, _E. umbrinus_, _E.
palmeri_, and _E. bulleri_, in base not markedly widened, and shaft
thinner; from _E. quadrivittatus_, _E. ruficaudus_, _E. cinereicollis_,
and _E. quadrimaculatus_, in shaft thinner, baculum shorter; from _E.
townsendii_, in base not dorsoventrally thickened, base not so widened;
from _E. sonomae_, in ridges on either side of tip not enlarged, base
not dorsoventrally thickened; from _E. amoenus_, _E. minimus_, and _E.
dorsalis_, in keel lower, angle formed by tip and shaft more distinct;
from _E. merriami_, in baculum markedly shorter, base not incised
dorsally.
_Specimen examined_: One from Big Cottonwood Meadows, S of Mount
Whitney, 10,000 ft., Inyo Co., California (CN).
#Eutamias minimus# (Bachman)