1U4 Mi'i'i'ldiii — y^ei'' Jf(/iii//Ht/.'< fri>//i ('oxmitd Ishmd. 



parts varyinu' from soiled whitish to pale bufTy salmon: ears dark brown, 

 darkest on outer half: tail dusky, jjaler below. 



Croniid rJrtrdrters. — Skull larse and heavy, with stron.^'ly marked 

 superciliary beads, lonp' rostrum, and lonu' incisive foramina. Closeh^ 

 related to (tqudticux. from which it differs in tlie foUowinj^ characters: 

 anterior roots of zygomata more depressed and less spreading; orbital 

 angle of frontal less marked; posterior part of braincase broader, carry- 

 ing the lateral beads outirard poxteriorly, .so that they form almost a 

 straight line from side of occiput to angle of orbit: incisive foramina 

 longer and more open. 



Remarks. — Compared with (i(/ttiifici/s. the only species to which it bears 

 any near resemblance, the color in fresh pelage is grayer and darker 

 (less golden fulvous), in worn pelage redder — the rump and hinder part 

 of back more rusty: ears and face darker, the face strongly grizzled 

 with black hairs. The underparts are never buft'y yellow as in aquctti- 

 cux. 



Meaxiiremerttfi. — Type specimen (rf ad.): total length '?,'^'l: tail verte- 

 brae 182: hind foot 85, Average of 5 adults from type locality: total 

 length ;<1."): tail vertebr;e ITfi: hind foot 34.5. 



