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Gcnl. Char. Tail short, thick, bristly: hind feet stout; feet and 

 ears densely haired. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Dorsal stripe ferruginous, mixed with 

 black; face, sides and rump buffy ochraceous; beneatli cream color, 

 feet white; ears rufous. Tail, above brownish at base, rest blackish; 

 beneath buff. 



Summer Pelage. Dorsal stripe darker; sides paler; beneath whit- 

 ish; feet gray. 



.\[easurements. Total length, 130; tail vertebra^, 30; hind foot, 

 20. Skull: basal length, 23.5; nasals, 7.S; zygomatic breadth, 14.3; 

 mastoid breadth, 12; alveolar length of upper molars, 5. 



240. wrangeli. (Evo/omys), Bailey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1897, 



p. 120, pi. Ill, fig. 5. 



Type locality. Wrangel, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. Only known from Wrangel and Revillagigcdo 

 Islands, Alaska. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail about twice as long as hind foot; 

 colors dull. Skull narrow; rostrum long, decurved; nasals usually 

 notched, incisors large. 



Color. Upper parts dark chestnut, shaded with liver brown; 

 cheeks and sides sepia gray, the latter suffused with yellowish buff; 

 under parts washed with buffy ochraceous; feet dusky gray; tail 

 blackish above, soiled buff below. 



Measurements. Average total length, 147; tail vertebrae, 37; hind 

 foot, 20. Skull: basal length, 24.3; nasals, 8; zygomatic breadth, 

 13.5; mastoid breadth, 11; alveolar length of molar series, 5.5. 



241. caurinus. (Protomys), Bailey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1898, 



p. 21. 



y'y/'e locality. Lund, east shore of Malaspina Inlet, British 

 Columbia. 



Geogr. Distr. Coast region of British Columbia east of the 

 Strait of Georgia and south of the Frazer River. 



Genl. Char. Similar to E. tcrangeli. Size small, color dark, tail 

 short. Skull: short and wide, with narrow rostrum, and small aud- 

 ital bullae. 



Color. .Summer Pelage. Above dark chestnut lined with black; 

 sides sepia gray tinged with buff; face dark gray, ears buffy; under 

 parts whitish; glandular spots whitish. Tail, chestnut above, buffy 

 beneath, tip blackish. 



Measurements. Total length, 135; tail vertebra^, 34; hind foot, 18. 



