NEOTOMA. 



MOUNT PINOS WOOD RAT. 



/ v/v locality. Mt. Pinos, Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, 

 California. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern California. Range unknown. 



Get} I. Char. Size large, tail long, black above; general line of 

 upper parts buff. 



Color. Upper parts and sides buff, with base of hairs dark 

 plumbeous; limbs mixed plumbeous and buff; chin, throat, and 

 between thighs white; rest of under parts white to root of hairs, 

 save a line along the sides; hands and feet white; wrists and ankles 

 dusky; tail above and on sides dusky, beneath grayish white; ears 

 dark brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 380; tail vertebrae, 176; hind foot, 

 39.5; ear, 33. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 46; Hensel, 38; zygomatic 

 width, 23; interorbital constriction, 5.6; width of braincase, 18; 

 length of nasals, 18.5; palatal length, 19; length of incisive foramen, 

 9 ; length of upper tooth row, 9 ; length of mandible, angle to in- 

 cisors, 23 ; length of lower tooth row, 8. 



482. Neotoma torquata Ward. 



Neotoma torquata Ward, Amer. Nat., xxv, 1891, p. 160. Elliot, 

 Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 

 1904, p. 279. Zool. Ser. 

 COLLARED WOOD RAT. 



Type locality. Between Tetela del Volcan and Zacualpan Amil- 

 pas, State of Morelos, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



483. Neotoma bryanti Merriam. 



Neotoma bryanti Merr., Amer. Nat., xxi, 1887, p. 191. Elliot, 

 Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. I, 

 1904, p. 280. Zool. Ser. 

 CERROS ISLAND WOOD RAT. 



TV re locality. Cerros or Cedros Island, Lower California, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



484. Neotoma micropus Bainl. 



A'. '/.'/;M micropus Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1855, 

 p. 333. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 1901, 

 p. 155. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. (\ M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 281, figs. 45, XLIII. Zool. Ser. 

 nu'i'rcpns auicscens Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., 1891, p. 285. 



