NEUROTRICHUS. 



upper molar bilobed; bullae incomplete; snout and tail elongate; nos- 

 trils lateral in terminal naked pad of snout; fore feet broad; claws 

 lonK, acute, compressed. 



Fig. 77. NEUROTRICHUS GIBBSII. 

 No. 872 Field Columbian Museum Coll. 



Skull twice nat. size. 



Tooth rows cnlartLred 4 tii 



572. gibbsi. {Urotrichus), Baird, N. km. Mamm., 1857, p. 76. 



Type locality. White River Pass, Cascade Mountains, Wash- 

 ington. 



Geogr. Distr. Fraser River, British Columbia, west of Cascade 

 and Sierra Nevada Mountains to Shasta County, and thence along the 

 coast of San Francisco Bay, California. 



Genl. Char. Muzzle prolonged into a cylindrical tube, con- 

 tinued some distance beyond the incisors, terminating in a simple 

 naked bulb. Nostrils cylindrical, opening in the side; eyes and ears 

 concealed. Tail long and hairy; fore foot moderately large, shorter 

 than the hind feet. Upper and under surface of both covered with 

 small plates. 



Color. " Dark sooty brown almost inappreciably lighter beneath, 

 the color almost uniform from the roots; a little more bluish perhaps 

 in the covered portions. Some of the hairs are more lustrous than 

 others, and reflect light so as to impart a hoary appearance. The 

 fur is long and not very compact, longest hair twentieth of an inch." 

 (Baird, 1. c.) 



a.— major. {Neurotrichus), Merr., N. Am. Faun., No. i6, 1899, p. 88. 

 Ty/>e locality. Carberry Ranch, Shasta County, California. 

 Gfogr. Distr. Canadian zone, Shasta County, California. 



