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region, rump like interscapular region; cheeks and flanks pale buff; 

 underparts white; hands and feet white; tail above blackish, beneath 

 grayish. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 359; tail, 153; hind foot, 27.9. 

 Skull: Total length, 43.9; intertemporal width, 5.5; zygomatic width, 

 23.5; length of nasals, 16.4; palatal length, 6.8; length of upper molar 

 series, 8.1; length of mandible, 22.9; length of lower molar series, 7.9. 

 Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Mr. Goldman (/. c.) describes the upperparts of this form as a 

 brownish drab, but I do not. find it so in the type, but as given above, 

 nor are the cheeks and flanks brownish drab, but decidedly a pale buff. 



Neotoma abbreviata Goldman. 



Neotoma abbreviata Goldm., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, 

 p. 140. 



Type locality. San. Francisco Island (near southern end of San 

 Jose Island), Gulf of California, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from type locality. 



Genl. Char. Like N. intermedia but smaller; tail very short. 



Color. Above pale drab-gray, dusky hairs mingled on top of head 

 and back, rump tinged with cinnamon or pale rusty; underparts 

 whitish, fur at base plumbeous; hands and feet white; tail above pale 

 grayish, beneath white. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Neotoma ferruginea chamula Goldman. 



Neotoma ferruginea chamula Goldm., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 

 1909, p. 141. 



Type locality. Mountains near San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. 

 Altitude 8,400 feet. 



Geogr. Distr. High mountains of Central Chiapas, Mexico, and 

 southwestern Guatemala, Transition and Canadian Zones. 



Genl. Char. Resembling N. ferruginea but darker. Size large. 



Color. Upperparts tawny cinnamon-rufous, many hairs tipped 

 with black; outer sides of limbs hair-brown, a brownish buff tinge 

 on hind legs; underparts dull white; hands white; feet dusky; toes 

 white; nose, lips and ankles dusky; tail blackish above, grayish brown 

 below. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 363; tail, 178; hind foot, 39. 

 Skull: Total length, 45.6; zygomatic width, 23; intertemporal width, 

 5.8; length of nasals, 18.3; palatal length, 8.9; length of upper molar 

 series, 9.3; length of mandible, 22.7; length of lower molar series, 9.6. 

 Ex type in United States National Museum. 



