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190. Lynx baileyi Merr. 

 Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 3. p. 79. 

 Arizona. 



ELIMINATED. 



Tamias minimus melanurus Merr. 

 Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 4, p. 22. 



Proves to be a phase of the molt of T. m.pidus. (Cf. Merriam, 

 N. Am. Fauna, No. 5. p. 46, foot-note.) 



Tamias asiaticus pallidus Allen. 



A synonym of T. minimus (Cf Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 ii, I ,1890, p. 113). 



SiTOMYS americanus deserticolus (Mearns). Desert Deer 

 Mouse. 



Hesperomys leucopiLs deserticolus Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist, ii, 4, p. 285. 



Identical with Sito^nys a. sonoriensis. 



Vesperugo merriami Dobson. 



Dobson, Mon. Insectivora, pt. iii, fasc. i. May, 1890, pi. xxiii. 



Identical with VesperJigo. hesperus (Cf. True, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. X, Aug:. 6, 1888, p. 515). 



Rangifer tarandus (Linn.) 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLORA OF THE CAPE 

 REGION OF BAJA CALIFORNIA.* 



BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



The Cape Region of Lower California is a mountainous extent 

 of country, about 80 miles long and 30 wide, situated mostly between 

 the twenty-third and twenty-fourth degrees of north latitude. At 

 one time, it may have been an island, and have been separated from 

 the northern portion of the peninsula by a wide sheet of water then 

 connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of California, now a 

 sandy plain and upland hardly rising more than one hundred and 

 fifty feet above the level of the sea. The northern direction taken 

 by the main mountain ranges of the region is followed by the islands 

 Espiritu Santo, San Jose and Santa Catalina out into the Gulf of 



* A list of plants of the Cape Region of ='Baja California is published in Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Ser. 2, vol. iii, lo8, and^a number of additions will soon appear in the 

 publications of the same society. 



