298 Field Columbian Museum — Zoology, Vol. III. 



17 Examples: 16 Mouth of the Canada de las Uvas, 1 Castac 

 Lake. 



"This race was found occupying a narrow belt on the 

 border of the San Joaquin Valley near Fort Tejon. At the 

 mouth of the Canada de las Uvas they occurred at the lower 

 edge of the .Oak Belt, the nests being placed among loose rocks 

 on hillsides and the walls of canons. They occupied a belt 

 covering only 300 or 400 vertical feet." 



Neotoma intermedia gilva. 



Neotoma i. gilva Rhoads, Am. Nat., xxvin, 1894, p. 70. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 162. 



10 Specimens from Whitewater. 



While resembling N. intermedia rather closely, the present 

 race can be distinguished by its much paler tail. The examples 

 were procured by Mr. Heller not far from the type locality, and 

 may almost be regarded as topotypes. Of this race Mr. Heller 

 says that ' ' about Whitewater and the eastern slope of the 

 San Bernardino Mountains this form was found commonly in 

 nests placed in clumps of small tree-yuccas, Yueca mohavensis. 

 About Burns Canon they occurred as high as 6,500 feet." 



Neotoma intermedia bella. 



Neotoma i. bella Bangs, Proc. N. Eng. Zool. Club, 1899, p. 66. 



25 Specimens: 11 Palm Springs (topotypes), 2 Whitewater, 

 6 Morongo Pass, 1 Burns Canon, 1 Old Woman's Spring, 4 Oro 

 Grande. 



TEONOMA. 

 Teonoma cinerea acraea. 



Teonoma c. acraea (misprinted acraia), Elliot, Pub. Field 

 Columb. Mus., in, 1903, p. 247. 



7 Specimens: 3 Hot Springs (type and topotypes), 1 Big 

 Cottonwood Meadows, 1 Big Cottonwood Lakes, Mount Whitney; 

 2 Summit of the Inyo Mountains east of Lone Pine. 



This seems to be a rather rare animal in the localities in which 

 it was met, which fact accounts for the small number of speci- 

 mens obtained, and it evidently inhabits only the higher parts 

 of the mountains, being indeed an alpine form. Mr. Heller 

 states that "it was not common about Mount Whitney, where it 

 was found from 8,000 feet elevation to timber-line. About Big 

 Cottonwood Lakes it was fairly numerous among granite boul- 

 ders, where it lived in the crevices, no attempt at nest-building 



