MAY, 1903. A LIST OF MAMMALS ELLIOT. 187 



Thirty-four specimens: 9, Nicasio; 7, Petaluma (topotypes); 4, 

 Point Reyes; 2, Mendocino; i, Requa, California; 9, Goldbeach; 

 2, Grant's Pass, Oregon. 



TEONOMA. 



Teonoma cinerea occidentalis. 



Neotoma cinerea occidentalis: .Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien., 

 Phila., 1855, p. 335. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 164. 



Two specimen's from Requa, California. 



These two examples appear referable to this species, and Requa 

 is apparently the southern limit of Teonoma on the coast. Requa .is 

 out of the range of occidentalis as heretofore given, but I am unable to 

 place these specimens with any other species. They differ from T. f. 

 apicalis in having no white tip to their tails and are lighter in color 

 generally, but not at all like Teonoma cinerea. 



Teonoma fusca. 



Neotoma occidentalis fusca. True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Wash., 

 1894, p. 354. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 165. 



Nine examples from Florence, Oregon. 



The differences displayed by this form from T. c. occidentalis would 

 seem to entitle it to a distinct specific rank. At Florence Mr. Heller 

 says this species was "common about old houses, logs, and hollow 

 trees in the forest, and in such places they build their nests of moss 

 and sticks. None secured here with white-tipped tails (N. f. apicalis} 

 as at Gardiner. " 



Teonoma fusca apicalis. 



Neotoma fusca apicalis. Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., in, 

 1 93 P- J 6o, Zoology. 



Seven specimens from Gardiner, Oregon. 



The great differences exhibited between the scaly and bushy- 

 tailed wood-rats both in their pelage, tail covering, and cranial char- 

 acters would seem to make it necessary to separate them as distinct 

 genera instead of leaving the bushy-tailed species in a subgeneric 

 division. The bushy, squirrel-like tail, and the elongated rostrum, 

 widely spreading zygomata at posterior roots, long, narrow sagittal 

 area, with broadest part behind, and great interorbital constriction 

 exhibited by the skulls of the members of TEONOMA would make them 

 easily recognizable from the scaly-tailed species of NEOTOMA, even if 

 there were no differences in the outside covering. I have therefore 

 here raised TEONOMA to full generic rank. Mr. Heller says this rat 



