NEOTOMA. 



281 



Color. Above rusty red, somewhat golden on the sides, and 

 mixed with black on the back; outside of arms and legs to wrists 

 and ankles, dusky; inner side of arms white, of legs grayish; sides 

 of lips and under parts white; tail above dusky, beneath paler. 



Measurements. Total length, 343-353; tail vertebrae, 165-177; 

 hind foot, 33-35. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 46; zygomatic width, 

 28; length of nasals, 20; length of upper molar series, 10. 



FIG. XLIII. NEOTOMA MICROPUS. SMALL-FOOTED WOOD RAT. 



281. micropus (Neotomd), Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1855, 



p. 333. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 155. 



canescens Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 285. 

 SMALL-FOOTED WOOD RAT. 



Type locality. Charco Escondido, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, northward to Okla- 

 homa and New Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Tail short, hardly two-thirds the length of the body; 

 ears large; feet small, soles naked. 



Color. Above grayish lead color, lined with dark brown; sides 

 paler; shoulders and flanks occasionally tinged with yellowish brown; 

 under parts and feet white; tail above dusky, beneath grayish white. 



Measurements. Total length, 359; tail vertebras, 185; hind foot, 

 36; ear, 30. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 49; Hensel, 36; zygomatic 

 width, 24; interorbital constriction, 6; length of nasals, 6.5; palatal 

 length, 19; length of upper tooth row, 10; length of mandible, condyle 

 to alveolus of incisor, 25. 



282. leucodon (Neotoma), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ix, 1894, p. 120. 

 WHITE-TOOTHED WOOD RAT. 



Type locality. San Luis Potosi, State of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 



