252 PEROGNATHUS. 



Genl. Char. Tail slightly shorter than head and body; hind foot 

 broad and short; ears moderate; antitragus lobed; pelage harsh, no 

 bristles. 



Color. Above brownish black and cinnamon ; lateral stripe 

 bright fulvous, almost orange; under parts, fore legs and feet white 

 Tail black above, beneath whitish, without crest or tuft. 



Measurements. Total length, 208 ; tail vertebraE", 102 ; hind 

 foot, 24. 



n.—* paradoxus. {Ferognalhus), Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. i, i88g, 

 p. 24, pi. Ill, fig. 18. 



latirostris, Rhoads, Am. Nat., 1894, xxviii, p. 185. 



conditi, Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1894. p. 318. 



Type locality. Trego County, Kansas. 



Geogr. Distr. From the Dakotas to Texas, west to base of 

 Rocky Mountains. 



Genl. Char. Large; ears large with antitragal lobe; soles naked. 



Color. Above yellowish brown lined with black; sides fulvous; 

 fore legs fulvous outside; feet and under parts white; tail above fuli- 

 ginous, beneath white tinged with fulvous. 



Measurements. Total length, 205-242; (Merr., measurements, 

 1. c. 100 mm., error;) tail vertebra-, 103-iig; hind foot, 26; ears, 5. 



385. penicillatus. {Ferognathus), Woodh. Proc. Acad. Phil., 1852, 

 p. 200. 



Type locality. San Francisco Mountain, Arizona? Little Colo- 

 rado Desert? 



Geogr. Distr. Bunkerville, Nevada, to Yuma, Arizona. 



Genl. Char. Size large; tail much longer than head and body, 

 crested; ear large, high antitragal lobe; soles naked. Cranial char- 

 acters those of the subgenus. 



Color. Above gray suffused with yellowish brown and lined with 

 black; fore legs, feet and under parts white; lateral stripe indistinct 

 pale fulvous; tail above dusky extending over pencil, beneath white. 



Measurements. Total length, 210; tail vertebrae, 122; hind foot, 

 23. Taken by collector in flesh. Carriso Creek, California. 



a.—an^ustirostris. (Ferognathus), Osgood, N. Am. Faun., No. 18, 

 1900, p. 47. 



Type locality. Carriso Creek Desert. Colorado, California. 



Geogr. Distr. "Colorado Desert, south to northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia and east to the Colorado River and southwestern Arizona." 



♦Specimens from Oklahoma Territory are much darker above, and the lateral stripe much 

 brighter and deeper than in the typical species, and are intermediate between P. h.taradoxus and 

 P. hispidus. 



