Tamiops swinhoei (Milne-Edwards, 1874) . Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 1:308.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Moupin [Muping]," [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China]. Restricted by Allen (1940:673) to "Hongchantin...about 6000 feet."

DISTRIBUTION: Extreme SW Gansu south through Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan (China) to N Burma and N Vietnam; isolated population in Hebei (China).

SYNONYMS: chingpingensis Lu and Qyan, 1965; clarkei Thomas, 1920; forresti Thomas, 1920; holti (Ellerman, 1940); olivaceus Osgood, 1932; russeolus Jacobi, 1923; spencei Thomas, 1921; vestitus Miller, 1915.

COMMENTS: The form forresti was originally named as a subspecies of T. maritimus, but assigned to swinhoei by Moore and Tate (1965:248).