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190. LYNX BAILEYI Merr. 
Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 3. p. 79. 
Arizona. 
ELIMINATED. 
TAMIAS MINIMUS MELANURUS Merr. 
Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 4, p. 22. 
Proves to be a phase of the molt of 7. m. pictus. (Cf. Merriam, 
N. Am. Fauna, No. 5. p. 46, foot-note.) 
TAMIAS ASIATICUS PALLIDUS Allen. 
A synonym of 7: minimus (Cf. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
B; i ,iag00, p. 113). 
SITOMYS AMERICANUS DESERTICOLUS (Mearns). Desert Deer 
Mouse. 
Flesperomys leucopus deserticolus Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist. ii, 4, p. 285. 
Identical with Sitomys a. sonoriensis. 
VESPERUGO MERRIAMI Dobson. 
Dobson, Mon. Insectivora, pt. iii, fasc. 1, May, 1890, pl. xxiii. 
Identical with Vesperugo hesperus (Cf. True, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. x, Aug. 6, 1888, p. 515). 
RANGIFER TARANDUS (Linn.) 
THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLORA OF THE CAPE 
REGION OF BAJA CALIFORNIA.* 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
The Cape Region of Lower California is a mountainous extent 
of country, about 80 miles long and 30 wide, situated mostly between 
the twenty-third and twenty-fourth degrees of north latitude. At 
one time, it may have been an island, and have been separated from 
the northern portion of the peninsula by a wide sheet of water then 
connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of California, now a 
sandy plain and upland hardly rising more than one hundred and 
fifty feet above the level of the sea. The northern direction taken 
: "A list of plants of the Cape Region of {Baja California is published in Proc. 
Sal. Acad. Ser. 2, vol. iii, 108, andja number of additions will soon appear in the 
publications of the same society. 
