160 APLODONTIA OASToK — NANNOSCIURUS. 



Aplodontia pacifica INIerriain. Biolo'^ical Siirvoy collection. 



l'n.c'. Biol. Soc. \Va.«h., XIII, pp. 19-20, January 31, 189SI. " 



7737'i. Skin and skull. Adult femalo. Newport, Oregon. March 

 26, 181)6 (not March 20, as in orif,nnal description). Collected b}' 

 B. J. Bretherton. Original number '2219. 

 Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Aplodontia major rainieri Merriam. Biological Survey collection. 



I'roc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIII, p. 21, January 31, 1899. 

 '.••)144. Skin and skull. Adult male. Paradise Creek, Mount Kainicr. 

 Wasiiiiigtoii. August 6, 1897. Collected by V. Bailey. Original 

 munber (M'22. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Family CASTORID.E. 



Genus CASTOR. 



Castor canadensis frondator Mearns. 



Preliminary I )iagnoses of New INIammals of the Genera Sciurus, Castor, Neotonia, 



and Sigmodon from the Mexican Border of the United States, p. 2, March 5, 



1897. (Reprinted in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, No. 1132, p. 502, January 



19, 1898. ) 

 Mill- Skin and skull. Adult male. San Pedro River, Sonora, 

 Mexico, near monument No, 98 of the Mexican boundary line. 

 October 2-1, 1892. Collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns, V. S. A,, and 

 F. X. Hoizner. Original number 2151. International Boundary 

 Commission. Catalogued Januarj' 6, 1893. 



Well-made skin, but rather overstuffed, in good condition; skull i)erfect. 



Castor canadensis texensis Bailey. Biological Survey collection. 

 North. Amer. Fauna, No. 25, pp. 122-124, October 24, 1905. 

 13574-1. Skin and skull. Cummings Creek, Colorado County, Texas. 

 December 25, 19(H), Collected by F. Brune. Kept in captivity 

 until January 10, 1901. Original number 5139x. 



Skin folded and flatteneil, having been made over after mounting; rump, under- 

 partH, and nose largely hare or with scattered patches of underfur; right fore leg 

 missing; nails of hind toes mostly broken or absent; skull lacks occijiital con- 

 dyles and most of supraoccipital; h'ft pterygoid and upper incisors broken. 



Family SCIURID.FI 



Genus N A N NOSCIU RUS. 



Nannosciurus bancanus Lyon. 



Proc. Biol. Sor. Wasii., XIX, p. 55, May 1, 1906. 

 1 24880. Skin and skull. Adult female. Klabat Bay, island of Banka, 

 east of Sumatra. June 24, 19(»4. Collect(>d by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Original numbrr :}4:'>o. Catalogued December 3, 1904. 

 Weil-made skin iii g 1 condition; skull perfect. 



