Color. Above pale yellowish brown sparsel)' mixed with black, 

 becoming grayish on the rump; top of head reddish brown finely 

 lined with black; sides and outside of thighs grayish white, mixed 

 with black and extending onto sides of belly; fore legs pale yellowish; 

 hind legs and feet rufous brown on sides, whitish on upper surface. 

 Tail blackish above, the hairs white tipped, beneath pure white. 

 Beneath head (chin and jaws), pale plumbeous, throat and breast 

 yellowish brown; rest of under parts white. Ears yellowish brown, 

 a dusky brown line along outer edge to tip. 



.\rt\isureiiieiils. Total length, 475 ; tail vertebra, 66 ; hind 

 foot, 105. 



c— transitional in. (/.r/i/s), Bangs, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1895, 



P- 405- 



Tv/e locality. Liberty Hill, New London County, Connecticut. 



Geogr. Distr. East side of lower Hudson River, New York, 

 along the AUeghanies to West Virginia, north to southern New 

 Hampshire and west to Hudson River. 



Genl. Char. Skull, as compared with that of /. floridanus, is 

 shorter and broader; postorbital process of the frontal bone slender 

 and short, enclosing (not always entirely) a foramen; incisive foramen 

 has the two outer sides parallel for two-thirds the length, turning 

 suddenly in and then continuing up behind incisors, making a bottle- 

 shaped opening. 



Color. Above russet and wood brown mixed with black; nuchal 

 patch hazel, as are the outside of legs; pectoral band wood brown; 

 under parts white; ears wood brown and russet, outer edge with a 

 black margin fringed with yellowish white. Tail sootv black; hairs 

 tipped with pale brown; beneath white. 



Aleasuremenls. Total length, 431 ; tail vertebra, 52. 5; hind foot, 

 99; ear, 58. 



(i.—hachmani. (Lc/n/s), Waterh., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1838, p. 103. 



tr('7,<briilgi-i, Baird, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1855, p. 333. 



Type locality. " S. W. coast of North America, probably Cali- 

 fornia." 



Geogr. Distr. Fort Crook to Cape St. Lucas, California. 



Genl. Char. Similar to L. f. auduhoni, but smaller; ears equal to 

 head in length; hind feet short: tail almost rudimentary; ears uni- 

 formly gray. 



Color. Above yellowish brown mixed with dark brown; throat, 

 chest and sides paler; legs and hind feet whitish, tinged with rufous; 

 ears gray, at extreme base rusty; no black edging at tip; fur every- 



