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of recognition as most forms that enjoy a similar rank. How it 

 would stand the test of a large series I am not prepared to say, 

 but at present give it the benefit of the doubt. It does not agree 

 with the specimens of Rhithrodontomys from Gainesville, and I 

 believe the example is the first taken in eastern Florida. 



NEOTOMA. 

 Neotoma floridana. 



Neotoma floridana. (Ord), Bull. Soc. Philom., Phil., 1818, 

 p. 181. 



Eleven specimens: 6, Riceboro, Georgia; 2, Enterprise; 3, 

 Gainesville, Florida. 



The above were the only places where Mr. Surber found this 

 rat. He says: "A month's search about New Berlin failed, 

 and I am confident it is not found very near there. Bangs 

 records several specimens from New Berlin, taken by Mr. Brown, 

 but they must have been taken several miles distant in the 

 swamps. The native name for this rat about Enterprise is ' cow 

 rat'; at several different points at this place I saw work of this 

 rat,, but it was all old. In a low, wet hummock, by the side of 

 Lake Munroe, two specimens, an adult and a young 9 ,. were 

 secured." 



MICROTUS. 

 Microtus (Neofiber) alleni. 



Neofiber alleni. True, Science, iv, 1884, p. 347. 



Twenty -three specimens: 8, Enterprise; 15, Gainesville, 

 Florida. 



This was one of the species found in Florida which Mr. Surber 

 was particularly instructed to seek. In places such as Oak 

 Lodge, where Mr. Bangs had formerly found them numerous, 

 not a specimen was secured nor an individual seen, and even in 

 the localities in which Mr. Surber found them they were few in 

 number. Is this species marching toward extinction? The 

 following are Mr. Surber's accounts of this animal, as observed at 

 Enterprise and Gainesville : 



" I found two colonies of Neofiber in a small lake called Gleason's 

 pond", about two miles north of Enterprise, one colony of about 

 fifteen nests being in the southern end of the lake, while the 

 other was a mile distant in the northern end, also of about the 

 same number of nests. Either the Florida muskrat builds two 



