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Table II. — Measurements of sixty specimens of Neotoma floridana — Continued. 



NEOTOMA FUSCIPES, Cooper 



Dusky-footed Wood Rat. 



Neotoma fnscipes, Cooper, MSS.— Baihd, M. N. A. 1857, 495. — Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 

 1874, 175. 



Diagnosis. — N. caudd unicolore, nigricante, elongatd, truncum sine capite 

 aquante sive exceedente, pedibus supra partim fuscis, auriculis plantisque fere, 

 nudls; nigro-badia, infra albida. Long. tot. 9.50 poll., caudd 8.50, pedis 1.60. 



Habitat. — California. 



This remarkable rat is much unlike any other of the genus we know of. 

 With a general agreement in form with other species of the scanty-haired 

 tailed group, there are striking differences, the first of which that we shall 



