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today only in certain parts of East Feliciana, St. Helena, Ea.si 

 Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes. See map on page 161. 

 D scription. — The so-called Carolina beaver is larger than the typical 

 canadensis, and has a relatively broader tail; the pelage, according 

 to Anthony, is bright hazel on the back, brigtening to Cinnamon- 

 rufous on the rump. The type beaver of the north is given a length 

 of 43 inches, with a tail measuring 16 by 4.5 inches broad, and a 

 7-inch hind foot. The identification of C. c. carolinensis for the 

 Louisiana beaver is only provisional. 



MUSRAT 



Louisiana Muskrat. Fiber rivalicius (Bangs).* 



Measurements. — Total length, 22 inches; tail vertebrate, 10 inches; hind 

 foot, 2.9 inches. 



Range. — Gulf coast only of Louisiana ; west, from High Island, Tex. ; 

 east to Pascagoula, Miss, (possibly to Mobile Bay, Ala.) ; north in 

 Louisiana to north shore of Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, up 

 Mississippi river in scattered localities, principally rice fields, to 

 Pointe Coupee parish; in western Louisiana, rice fields In Allen 

 parish. 



Description. — See chapters on Muskrat. 



*Ondatra rivalica of some authors. 



