180 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



1904. [Aplodontia rufa] calif ornica Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , 

 Suppl., fasc. 2, p. 348. 



Type Locality. — Assumed to be the Sierra Nevada of California (Grinnell, 

 Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 3, p. 344, Aug. 28, 1913) ; specimens 

 from Blue Canyon, Placer County, in central Sierra Nevada may be regarded 

 as typical (Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, No. 16, p. 474, May 29, 

 1918; see also Hall, Murrelet, vol. 22, No. 3 (December 1941), p. 51, Jan. 20, 

 1942). Range. — Sierra Nevada, north to Mount Shasta and south as far as 

 Clover Creek, Sequoia National Park, Tulare County ; vertical range, from 4,600 

 feet (Blue Canyon, Placer County) up to 10,000 feet (in head of Lyell Canyon, 

 Tuolumne County) ; zonal range, Canadian and Hudsonian (Grinnell, Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 194, Sept. 26, 1933). Recorded also 

 eastward to Washoe and Ormsby Counties, Nev. (Hall, Mammals of Nevada, 

 p. 575, July 1, 1946) . 



Aplodontia rufa nigra Taylor 



1914. Aplodontia nigra Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 12, No. 6, 



p. 297, Apr. 15, 1914. 

 1918. Aplodontia rufa nigra Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, 



No. 16, p. 479, May 29, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Point Arena, Mendocino County, Calif. Range. — Known 

 only from type locality, where it is found within an area of approximately 24 

 square miles. 



Aplodontia rufa phaea Merriamf* 



1899. Aplodontia phaea Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 20, 

 Jan. 31, 1899. 



1918. Aplodontia rufa phaea Taylor, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 17, 

 No. 16, p. 480, May 29, 1918. 



Type Locality. — Point Reyes [probably somewhere near present town of In- 

 verness], Marin County, Calif. Range.- — Humid coast belt of Marin County, 

 from 5 miles west of Inverness east to Lagunitas and south to four miles south of 

 Olema; area inhabited, approximately 110 square miles; vertical range below 

 1,000 feet; zonal range, Transition (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 40, No. 2, p. 195, Sept. 26, 1933) . 



Superfamily SCIUROIDEA 



Family Sciuridae 65 



Subfamily sciurinae 



Genus MARMOTA 06 Blumenbach (woodchucks) 

 1779. Marmota Blumenbach, Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, vol. 1, p. 79. 

 (Type, Marmota alpina Blumenbach = Mus marmota Linnaeus.) 



85 For present classification see A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 56 (April), pp. 1, 

 36-52, May 18, 1938. For other classifications, see Ellerman, The families and genera of 

 living rodents, vol. 1, pp. 259-464, June 8, 1940; Bryant, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 33, No. 2, 

 pp. 257-390, March 1945; Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, pp. 78-80, Oct. 5, 

 1945. 



68 Revised by A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 37, pp. 1-80, Apr. 7, 1915. See also 

 A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 56 (April), pp. 37-38, May 18, 1938. 



