158 NEOTOMA. 



220. mexicana. {A'eoipma), Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 



1855. P- 333- 



Type locality. Mountains near Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Mountain slopes in eastern New Mexico, south- 

 western Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Ears large; feet small; tail three times the length 

 of head and body; soles naked. Nasal bones end on the same line 

 posteriorly, and do not extend backward to the anterior extremity 

 of orbits; highest point of condjle higher than coronoid process. 



Color. Above pale yellowish brown, lined with dark brown; 

 sides yellowish brown. Outside of legs, feet and under parts, white. 

 Tail, dusky above, whitish beneath. 



Measurements. Total length, 340; tail vertebrae, 151; hind foot, 

 37; ear, 32. 



fi.—bullatn. {^Neotiwia), Merr., Proc. Biol. See. Wash., 1894, p. 122. 



Type locality. Santa Catalina Mountains, southeastern Arizona. 



Geogr. Distr. Only known from type locality. 



Genl. Char. Similar to A^. mexicana, audital bullae small and 

 curved toward median line anteriorly, the inner side decidedly con- 

 cave and sloping inward. 



Color. Above dull ochraceous buff; grayish on head and legs, 

 and lined with black on dorsal region. Feet and under parts white, 

 under fur plumbeous. Tail, grayish brown above, whitish beneath. 



Measurements. Total length, 335; tail vertebrae, 151; hind foot, 

 34; ear, 22. 



221. pinetorum. {Neotoma), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1893, 



p. III. 



mexicana, Merr. (nee. Baird), N. Am. Faun., No. 3, 1890, p. 67, 

 pi. x, fig. 5-8. 



Type locality. San Francisco Mountain, Arizona. 



Geogr. Distr. Pine covered plateau of Arizona. 



Genl. Char. S\m\\3ii io X. fuscipes, smaller; tail, ears and hind 

 feet shorter. 



Color, Above fulvous mixed with black; face grizzled gray; feet 

 and under parts white. Tail, above blackish, below white. 



Measurements. Total length, 355; tail vertebra', 163; hind foot, 

 37; ear, 25. 



222. fuscipes. [Xeotoma), Baird, Mam. N. Amer. , 1857, p. 495. 

 monochrura, Rhoads, Amer. Nat., 1894, p. 67. 



splendens. True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash., 1894, p. 353. 

 Type locality. Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. 



