CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



Introduction 1 



Foreword 1 



Material and acknowledgments 3 



Illustrations 4 



CHAPTER II 



Systematic Position of Neotoma and its Subgenera 6 



CHAPTER III 



Habits of the Three Subgenera Studied 8 



CHAPTER IV 



External Features U 



CHAPTER V 



Myology 22 



Prefatory note 22 



Muscles of the head 24 



Muscles of the body 32 



Muscles of the anterior limb 58 



Muscles of the posterior limb 69 



CHAPTER VI 



Alimentary Tract and adjacent Glands 90 



CHAPTER VII 



Urogenital System 100 



CHAPTER VIII 



Osteology 110 



Skull Ill 



Hyoid 123 



Vertebral column 124 



Thorax 133 



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