Vol. XII, pp. 161-165 August 10, 1898 



PROCEEDINGS 



OK THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW MAMMALS FROM THE 

 SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



In the fine material already sent to the Bangs collection by 

 \V. W. Brown, Jr., from the Santa Marta region of Colombia are 

 apparently five new mammals. The collections contain many 

 other species, including wide-ranging tropical-forest forms, and 

 other species the exact identity of which I have not yet deter- 

 mined. The present paper contains merely preliminary de- 

 scriptions of some of the new forms, but I hope to be able later 

 on to give a full account of all the mammals Mr. Brown secures 

 in this region. 



Mr. Old field Thomas has kindly compared some of the small 

 rodents with the types in the British Museum from Bogota, Co- 

 lombia, and Merida, Venezuela. He finds that the Santa Marta 

 animals have closer affinity with those from Merida than with 

 those from Bogota. 



Philander cicur sp. now 



Type from Pueblo Viejo, Colombia, altitude 8000 ft, No. SI 14, $ adult, 

 coll. of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Collected March 27, 1 898, 1 >y W. W. Brown, Jr. 



General characters. — Size large ; tail longer than head and body, hairy 

 above for about half of its length, below for about one-fourth its length ; 

 no gray stripe on back ; upper surface of arms deep hazel. 



Color and Pelage. — Fur long, dense and soft ; hairs of upper parts rich 

 brown, between hazel and russet, at tips, mouse gray at base, the gray 

 color showing through in places, especially about shoulders and along 

 lower sides; no gray mark or stripe on buck ; face dark gray ; a narrow 

 dark brown stripe from nose to between ears, where it merges into brown 

 of occiput ; a dark brown circle around eye ; base of whiskers dusky ; 

 whiskers black; under parts yellowish white, purest on belly and along 

 median line, grayer on sides and under surface of neck ; arms bright 

 hazel above, yellowish white below ; legs hazel near feet, gray near body ; 



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