NEOTOMA 15» 



Geogr. Distr. Coast region of California and Oregon, from Mon- 

 terey Bay to the Columbia River. 



Genl. Char. Tail nearly as long as head and body, unicolor. 

 Size large, hind feet short: soles naked. Hairs on throat and bflly 

 white to the roots. 



Color. Above mi.xed reddish brown and black; sides reddish 

 brown; dorsal region darkest. Limbs outside to wrists and ankles 

 like the back; feet dusky; under parts yellowish white. Tail, dusky 

 all around. 



Measurements. Total length, 410; tail vertebras, 198; hind 

 foot, 41. 



a.—macroli^. (AWtoma), Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xii, 1893, 

 p. 234. 



simplex. True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash., 1894, p. 354. 



Type locality. San Diego, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Coast region of California, south of Monterey 

 Bay. 



Genl. Char. Similar to .V. fuscipes, but smaller, and feet white; 

 hairs on center portions of under parts luhite to the roots. Tail short. 



Color. Above mixed reddish brown and black, lighter on sides; 

 dorsal area darkest; feet and entire under parts white. Tail, above 

 brownish black, beneath pale brown. 



Younger specimens have little or none of the reddish brown 

 color, but are a pale yellowish brown, and the belly is often tinged 

 with buff. This pelage is the most common, and may also represent 

 that of winter. 



Measurements. Total length, 404; tail vertebra;, 195; hind foot, 

 41; ear, 32.5. 



b.—streatori. (Neotoma), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. , Wash., 1894, p. 124. 



Type locality. Carbondale, Amidor County, California. 



Geogr. Distr. West slope of Sierra Nevada in California. Moun- 

 tains of northeast California generally. 



Genl. Char. .Similar to N. fuscipes. Palate barely equaling 

 length of interpterygoid fossa and basisphenoid; incisive foramina 

 reaching back past plane of first molars; pterygoid fossa rounded 

 anteriorly. Hairs of under parts white to roots, save in a narrow line 

 along the side where the base of the hairs is plumbeous. 



Color. Above dark grizzly brown, suffused with fulvous, sides 

 fulvous, feet and under parts white. .Xnkles dusky. Tail, blackish 

 above, whitish below. 



Measurements. Total length, 382; tail vertebra, 175; hind 

 foot, 37. 



